Taxi to the Dark Side Taxi to the Dark Side

Must Watch Award-Winning Documentary

The film documents how Rumsfeld, together with
the White House legal team, were able to convince
Congress to approve the use of torture against
prisoners of war. Taxi to the Dark Side is the
definitive exploration of the introduction of torture
as an interrogation technique in U.S. facilities, and
the role played by key figures of the Bush
Administration in the process.

Over one hundred prisoners have died in suspicious
circumstances in U.S. custody during the "war on terror".
Taxi to the Dark Side takes an in-depth look at one case:
an Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar who was considered
an honest and kind man by the people of his rustic village.
So when he was detained by the U.S military one afternoon,
after picking up three passengers, denizens wondered why
this man was randomly chosen to be held in prison, and,
especially, without trial?

Five days after his arrest Dilawar died in his Bagram prison cell.
His death came within a week of another death of a detainee at
Bagram. The conclusion, with autopsy evidence, was that
the former taxi driver and the detainee who passed away
before him, had died due to sustained injuries inflicted at
the prison by U.S. soldiers.

The documentary, by award-winning producer Alex Gibney,
carefully develops the last weeks of Dilawar’s life and shows
how decisions taken at the pinnacle of power in the Bush
Administration led directly to Dilawar’s brutal death.