Taxi to the Dark Side

There have been various documentaries and movies about the torture of Iraqi/Afghan prisoners resulting from the Bush Administration's dubious war on terror but this one is very well put together from the maker of The Smartest Guys in the Room. The... Full review

This film provides a critical account of our government's treatment of the captives at Bagram, Abu Ghraib,and Guantanamo. I found that it was especially helpful to hear this story told from the point of view of soldier interrogators, military brass, government... Full review

After watching this movie earlier this year this movie just won 2008 best documentary of the year coming from the Academy Awards. It won becuase it pushed our government to look into the torture of prison people down at CUBA. The... Full review

Impeach Bush and send him to trial for war crimes and mass murder. Cheney and Bush are guilty of lies and treason and need to be held accountable at the end of a short rope. Bring them to trial now.... Full review

This ain't my country any more. Those people who think this movie is terrorism have destroyed this country. The movie is the truth.... Full review

As Gibney's film demonstrates, the techniques used at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, and other sites have several points of departure, each chilling in its own way. And, as Gibney has recently noted, The film submits that pervasive imagery of ("successful") torture in popular culture (exemplified by scenes from 24 ) has led to what Alfred McCoy (A Question of Torture ) calls "a constituency for torture that allows the Bush White House to get away with the way it twists laws and treaties. ... Full Review

Gibney's rage is filtered through an intelligent and compassionate sensibility, as in his interviews with former soldiers responsible for the death of Dilawar. From Bagram to Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo, Gibney cunningly traces links up and down the chain of command, exposing how the White House has given more than tacit support to inhuman methods of detention and interrogation. ... Full Review

But the film quickly becomes one of the most powerful, carefully researched investigations of the moral-legal side effects of current American military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. But so much of the film's extraordinary potency is visual. ... Full Review

And yet, because the truth has been spun in the mass media, the larger response to this movie -- which is honest, honorable, and properly angry at what is being done America's name that is so antithetical to American ideals -- has frequently accused it of being "liberal propaganda. ... Full Review

There's no doubt about it, "Taxi to the Dark Side" tells an unpleasant and maddening story, and its excessive use of composer Ivor Guest's creepy sound stylings occasionally place an unneeded underline to material that's plenty disturbing all on its own. ... Full Review

To qualify for Academy Award consideration, a documentary must play in at least one theater in both Manhattan and Los Angeles for at least a week. ... Full Article

For quite a few years now, the best documentaries have been right up there - maybe even better than - the best feature films. They may still be ghettoised every year come Oscar time, stuffed into their own little category... ... Full Article

Documentaries fresh from Sundance and around the world will be featured at the sixth True/False Film Festival Feb. 26-March 1 in Columbia. Organizers describe some of this year's documentaries as works in progress; others won't be seen elsewhere in the... ... Full Article

Shakespeare in Hamlet said it best: "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown." The tragedy of George W Bush's presidency has been felt in every part of America's identity. ... Full Article

THE Australian filmmaker Eva Orner might have won an Oscar this year for the searing documentary Taxi To The Dark Side , about the American military killing an Afghan prisoner, but her favourite Christmas movie is much more innocent -... ... Full Article

BrianTT]CHICAGO - One of the most wonderful things about the world of documentary film is the complete unpredictability of the form. It seems much easier to look at a list of upcoming works from major and minor narrative directors and... ... Full Article