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Taxicab to the Dark Side is a 2007 US documental filmed by Alex Gibney and made by him, Eva Orner and Susannah Shipman. He won the 2007 Oscar for Best documentary. The focus is on the murder of an Afghanistan taxi cabby Dilawar in December 2002[1], who was beat to dead by US troops while in extra-judicial custody and questioned at the Parwan Dention Facility at Bagram Airebase.

She was part of the Why Democracy? program, which included ten documentaries from around the globe that question and explore modern democracies. Within the framework of this programme, the documentation was broadcasted from 8 to 18 October 2007 in over 30 states. BBC showed the movie in their Storyville show.

Taxis to the Dark Side investigates US policies on torturing and interrogating, in particular the use of torturing by the CIA and its research on sense-depriation. Among other things, the movie discusses and defends the use of and opposition to the use of torture by enemies, both politically and militarily; Congress tries to comply with the Geneva Convention's standard on the prohibition of the use of force of Torture; and the popularisation of the use of the technique of torture in television serials such as 24.

Dilawar, an Afghanistan groundnut grower who gave up agriculture to become a taxi rider and who was killed after several consecutive-day defeat in Bagram Prison, is the documental backdrop to the deaths. After leaving his home in Yakubi in the east of Afghanistan in the fall of 2002, Dilawar invested his own funds in a new taxi to earn a living in a bigger town.

It examines the context of "torture", which has been progressively punished since 11 September 2001, in violation of the Geneva Convention, and examines the exposure of Abu Graib. Guantánamo Bay and how the same technologies were used there. Cited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of 15 documentaries on the Oscar list in November 2007,[6][7], he received the Oscar on February 24, 2008.

In his thank-you address for the Academy Award, Gibney said "Best Documentary Feature": The Discovery Channel purchased the right to transmit Taxi to the Dark Side in June 2007. In February 2008, however, she published her intent to never send the document because of its contentious character. 11 ] HBO then purchased the abstraction to the object and declared that it would air in September 2008, whereupon the Discovery Channel announce that it would air Taxi to the Dark Side in 2009.

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