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Taxi to the Dark Side

Index Taxi to the Dark Side

Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney, and produced by him, Eva Orner, and Susannah Shipman. [1]

54 relations: Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Administrative detention, Afghanistan, Alex Gibney, Bagram Airfield, Bagram torture and prisoner abuse, Canadian Afghan detainee issue, Damien M. Corsetti, Democracy Now!, Dilawar (torture victim), Discovery Channel, Eliza Griswold, Eva Orner, Extraordinary rendition, Filmmaker (magazine), Forward Operating Base Salerno, Geneva Conventions, Guantánamo Bay, HBO, Homicide, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, Jan Baz, List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Moazzam Begg, Mohammed al-Qahtani, New York City, Parwan Detention Facility, Peabody Award, Premiere (magazine), Reuters, Rotten Tomatoes, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sensory deprivation, September 11 attacks, Standard Operating Procedure (film), Storyville (TV series), Taxicab, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, ThinkFilm, Tim Golden (journalist), Torture and the United States, Torturing Democracy, Tribeca Film Festival, ..., U.S. Army and CIA interrogation manuals, Why Democracy?, Yakubi, 24 (TV series). Expand index (4 more) »

Abu Ghraib

Abu Ghraib (أبو غريب, Abū Ghurayb) is a city in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq, located just west of Baghdad's city center, or northwest of Baghdad International Airport.

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Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse

During the war in Iraq that began in March 2003, personnel of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS (often pronounced as am-pas), also known as simply the Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

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Administrative detention

Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial, usually for security reasons.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

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Alex Gibney

Philip Alexander "Alex" Gibney (born October 23, 1953) is an American documentary film director and producer.

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Bagram Airfield

Bagram Airfield also known as Bagram Air Base is the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan.

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Bagram torture and prisoner abuse

In 2005, The New York Times obtained a 2,000-page United States Army investigatory report concerning the homicides of two unarmed civilian Afghan prisoners by U.S. military personnel in December 2002 at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility (also Bagram Collection Point or B.C.P.) in Bagram, Afghanistan and general treatment of prisoners.

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Canadian Afghan detainee issue

The Canadian Afghan detainee issue concerns Government of Canada and/or the Canadian Forces (CF) knowledge of abusive treatment of detainees in Afghanistan.

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Damien M. Corsetti

Damien M. Corsetti was a soldier in the United States Army.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.

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Dilawar (torture victim)

Dilawar (born c. 1979 – December 10, 2002), also known as Dilawar of Yakubi, was an Afghan taxi driver who was tortured to death by US army soldiers at the Bagram Collection Point, a US military detention center in Afghanistan.

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Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American pay television channel that is the flagship television property of Discovery Inc., a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav.

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Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold (born February 9, 1973) is an American journalist and poet.

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Eva Orner

Eva Orner is an Australian Academy and Emmy Award-winning film producer and director based in Los Angeles.

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Extraordinary rendition

Extraordinary rendition, also called irregular rendition or forced rendition, is the U.S. government-sponsored abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another that has predominantly been carried out by the United States government with the consent of other countries.

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Filmmaker (magazine)

Filmmaker is a quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film.

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Forward Operating Base Salerno

Forward Operating Base Salerno is a former forward operating base used by the U.S. military from 2002–2013 during Operation Enduring Freedom.

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Geneva Conventions

Original document as PDF in single pages, 1864 The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for humanitarian treatment in war.

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Guantánamo Bay

Guantánamo Bay (Bahía de Guantánamo) is a bay located in Guantánamo Province at the southeastern end of Cuba.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Homicide

Homicide is the act of one human killing another.

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Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi

Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (ALFB transliteration: Ḁbnʋ ălŞɑỉƈ alLibi; born Ali Mohamed Abdul Aziz al-Fakheri, 1963 – May 10, 2009) was a Libyan national captured in Afghanistan in November 2001 after the fall of the Taliban; he was interrogated by the American and Egyptian forces.

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Jan Baz

Jan Baz Khan is a citizen of Afghanistan who allegedly turned over innocent men to American troops in the beginning of the war in Afghanistan.

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List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes

On the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, films which are reviewed by at least five critics, and which all of these critics consider to be good films, have a 100% approval rating.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Moazzam Begg

Moazzam Begg (مُعَظّم بیگ; born 1968 in Sparkhill, Birmingham) is a British Pakistani who was held in extrajudicial detention by the US government in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility and the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, in Cuba, for nearly three years.

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Mohammed al-Qahtani

Mohammed Mana Ahmed al-Qahtani (محمد مانع أحمد القحطاني) (sometimes transliterated as al-Kahtani) (born November 19, 1975) is a Saudi citizen who has been detained as an Al Qaeda Agent since June 2002 in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Parwan Detention Facility

The Parwan Detention Facility (also called Detention Facility in Parwan) is Afghanistan's main military prison.

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Peabody Award

The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards) program, named for American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and online media.

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Premiere (magazine)

Premiere was an American and New York City-based film magazine published by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., between 1987 and 2010.

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Reuters

Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Sensory deprivation

Sensory deprivation or perceptual isolation is the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Standard Operating Procedure (film)

Standard Operating Procedure is a 2008 American documentary film which explores the meaning of the photographs taken by U.S. military police at the Abu Ghraib prison in late 2003, the content of which revealed the torture and abuse of its prisoners by U.S. soldiers and subsequently resulted in a public scandal.

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Storyville (TV series)

Storyville is a documentary strand presented by the BBC showcasing the best in international documentaries.

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Taxicab

A taxicab, also known as a taxi or a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride.

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The New Republic

The New Republic is a liberal American magazine of commentary on politics and the arts, published since 1914, with influence on American political and cultural thinking.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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ThinkFilm

ThinkFilm (stylized as TH!NKFilm) was a U.S. film distribution company founded in September 2001.

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Tim Golden (journalist)

Tim Golden (born 1961 in Los Angeles) is an American journalist.

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Torture and the United States

Torture and the United States includes documented and alleged cases of torture both inside and outside the United States by members of the U.S. government, the U.S. military, U.S. law enforcement agencies, U.S. intelligence agencies, U.S. health care services, and other U.S. public organizations.

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Torturing Democracy

Torturing Democracy is a 2008 documentary film produced by Washington Media Associates and narrated by Peter Coyote.

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Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival is a prominent film festival held in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, showcasing a diverse selection of independent films.

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U.S. Army and CIA interrogation manuals

The U.S. Army and CIA interrogation manuals are seven controversial military training manuals which were declassified by the Pentagon in 1996.

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Why Democracy?

Why Democracy? is a documentary film series produced by, previously named Steps International.

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Yakubi

Yakubi is the center of Sabari District in Khost Province, Afghanistan.

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24 (TV series)

24 is an American television series produced for the Fox network, created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, and starring Kiefer Sutherland as counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_to_the_Dark_Side

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