Taxi to the Dark Side

5/17/2026

Although this is ostensibly about the death in custody of a taxi driver; it actually pans out to provide for a savage critique on the policy of the George W. Bush administration towards those incarcerated under military jurisdiction following the atrocities of 9/11. Using a fairly extensive array of archive footage and pretty condemnatory photography, this interviews many of those victims and their legal representatives who fought to get a fair trial for clients whom the US Government denied any sort of legal status and thereby representation. It attempts to scrutinise this (semi)official but hardline position taken, though not using any direct contributions made especially for this film, by quoting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, VP Dick Cheney and the President himself as they played