Film: Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
Series: Why Democracy?
Director: Alex Gibney
Producer: Alex Gibney, Eva Orner, Susannah Shipman
Writer: Alex Gibney
Cast: Brian Keith Allen, Moazzam Begg, Christopher Beiring
Narrator: Alex Gibney
Music: Ivor Guest, Robert Logan
Cinematography: Maryse Alberti, Greg Andracke
Editor: Sloane Klevin
Production: Discovery Channel
Distributor: THINKFilm
Description: Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney. It won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It focuses on the December 2002 killing of an Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar, who was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention and interrogated at the Parwan Detention Facility 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.