"In 2002, a young cab driver picked up a few passengers near his home in Afghanistan... He never returned" 18 January 2008 Factual 106 mins
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
Watch the official Taxi to the Dark Side 2008 trailer in HD below or find more Taxi to the Dark Side videos on Vidimovie.
Alex Gibney as Narrator (voice)
Brian Keith Allen as Soldier - New York studio shoot reenactment
Moazzam Begg as Self - Torture Victim (as Moazzam Beg)
Christopher Beiring as Self - Captain
Alex Gibney Director
Ivor Guest Original Music Composer
Alex Gibney Writer
Sloane Klevin Editor
Um Táxi para a Escuridão Trailer
计程车司机之死 Trailer
黑暗纪事 Trailer
Taxi zur Hölle Trailer
驶向阴霾的出租 Trailer
Um Táxi para a Escuridão Trailer
Brazil 23 January 2009
Canada 18 January 2008
United Kingdom 13 June 2008
Ireland 11 July 2008
Portugal 10 May 2009
United States 18 January 2008
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Vince Warren from the Center for Constitutional Rights introduces this clip from "Taxi to the Dark Side" Alex Gibney's Academy Award-winning documentary.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 2008:
09 July 2008
Jonathan and Romario are two Afro-Ecuadorian children from the Chota Valley, one of the poorest regions of Ecuador.
01 February 2008
Three small films for as many reflections on the senses and human knowledge. In the first episode, Emmer reviews with anthological and didactic intent the precepts of ancient philosophy, from Greek to Roman civilization; in the second, working as he did at the beginning of his career on a vast repertoire of pictorial and non-pictorial images, he analyzes the “history of the gaze” in the visual arts, from prehistoric graffiti to medieval altarpieces, from Impressionist and Cubist paintings to modern-day advertising posters; finally, in the third, recounting with irony and lightness a day of solitude in his mountain home, he reflects on the intellectual thinking of writers and great thinkers, relating to his own individual experience as much the words of oral tradition and popular culture as the writings of geniuses such as Shakespeare, Spinoza or Gogol.
07 September 2008
Executive Producer Sean Penn presents "Witch Hunt," a gripping indictment of the American justice system told through the lens of one small town.
24 April 2008
He lived the junkie's life as a heroin addict. Triathlon transformed him. Biopic of the record breaking Ironman Andreas Niedrig.
10 December 2008
A beautiful grad student named Tara Simmons is abducted by aliens in a flying saucer. Four days later she finds herself back on earth at the top secret government facility Areola 51, which documents sexual encounters with aliens.
04 June 2008
Chosen by prophecy but doubted by all, Po is an unlikely choice for the mystical title of the Dragon Warrior—a clumsy panda thrust into the world of kung fu as a deadly enemy threatens the Valley of Peace.
10 April 2008
A witty young woman, Samantha Billows, is diagnosed with a bizarre social anxiety disorder. No therapist seems to help her move beyond her plant maintenance job.
26 August 2008
Chris Jackson is a taxi driver with a childhood trauma. The trauma has made him a portal for obsessions to pass from the mind to the physical world and hence disrupt the world's multiple planes of reality.
14 January 2008
A radical hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres, Craig Baldwin's Mock Up On Mu cobbles together a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions, and Beat lifestyles.
01 March 2008
A gonzo black comedy with six intertwining stories set in the streets of Tokyo about the ongoing battle between the Internet generation and the older generation.
14 March 2008
It has been over 20 years since Maren Bertram left her parents' farm after a bad argument with her father Maximilian.
27 November 2008
A group of ghastly creatures from the past led by Drakulat Van Listerooy (Awie) returns to free one of Satan's spawn - Lord Sharon.
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