TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE [DVD5 - Ita Eng - Sub Ita] torrent

TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE [DVD5 - Ita Eng - Sub Ita]

Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) is a documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney, and produced by Eva Orner and Susannah Shipman, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It focuses on the murder of an Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar, beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention at the Bagram Air Base.
Taxi to the Dark Side examines America's policy on torture and interrogation in general, specifically the CIA's use of torture and their research into sensory deprivation. There is description of the opposition to the use of torture from its political and military opponents, as well as the defense of such methods; the attempts by Congress to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention forbidding torture; and the popularization of the use of torture techniques in shows such as 24.
It is part of the Why Democracy? series, which consists of ten documentary films from around the world questioning and examining contemporary democracy. As part of the series, Taxi to the Dark Side was broadcast in over 30 different countries around the world from October 8–18, 2007. The BBC cut the film to 79 minutes for broadcast.
The film is said to be the first film to contain images taken within Bagram Air Base.

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Taxi to the Dark Side è un film del 2007 diretto da Alex Gibney vincitore del Premio Oscar 2008 nella categoria miglior documentario.
Il documentario è incentrato sulla politica adottata dopo gli Attentati dell'11 settembre 2001 dal governo americano per quanto concerne il trattamento dei prigionieri durante gli interrogatori in Iraq, Afghanistan e nel Campo di prigionia di Guantánamo.
Il film prende ad esempio la storia di un tassista afghano, catturato e torturato durante l'interrogatorio, morto dopo pochi giorni di prigionia. 104 sono in totale i casi di morti sospette, al 2007.