Mugshot of taxi driver Dilawar at the Bagram prison where he died.
Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney, and produced by Gibney, Eva Orner, and Susannah Shipman. It won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[1] It focuses on the December 2002 killing of an Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar,[2] who was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention and interrogated at a black site at Bagram air base.
It was part of the Why Democracy? series, which consisted of ten documentary films from around the world questioning and examining contemporary democracy. As part of this series, the documentary was broadcast in over 30 countries from October 8–18, 2007. The BBC showed the film in its Storyville series.
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^Eliza Griswold (May 2, 2007). "The other Guantánamo. Black Hole". The New Republic. Archived from the original on May 9, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
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