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Rachel Maddow talks to Oscar winning director Alex Gibney, who’s film “Taxi to the Dark Side,” which explores the Bush administration’s reckless abuse of power when dealing with torture. This video is from MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast September 25, 2008.

Rachel Maddow talks to Oscar winning director Alex Gibney, whos film Taxi to the Dark Side, which explores the Bush administration's reckless abuse of power when dealing with torture.

A documentary film about the torture of innocent prisoners of 'A War On Terror' in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED, VOILENT SCENES.

A documentary film about the torture of innocent prisoners of 'A War On Terror' in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED, VOILENT SCENES.

A documentary film about the torture of innocent prisoners of 'A War On Terror' in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED, VOILENT SCENES.

A documentary film about the torture of innocent prisoners of 'A War On Terror' in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED, VOILENT SCENES.

A documentary film about the torture of innocent prisoners of 'A War On Terror' in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED, VOILENT SCENES.

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Filmmaker Alex Gibney sat with FilmCatcher to discuss his film Taxi to the Dark Side. To see the rest of this interview and more FilmCatcher exclusive interviews, check out www.FilmCatcher.com.

It started as a documentary film and was co-funded by BBC Television as part of their 'Why Democracy?' season. Directed by the acclaimed American documentary maker Alex Gibney, the film won an Oscar for best documentary 2008. It is a chilling and compelling account of torture, abuse and murder, of an innocent taxi driver named Dilawar in the US prison at Bagram airbase, Afghanistan. Such was the f...

It started as a documentary film and was co-funded by BBC Television as part of their 'Why Democracy?' season. Directed by the acclaimed American documentary maker Alex Gibney, the film won an Oscar for best documentary 2008. It is a chilling and compelling account of torture, abuse and murder, of an innocent taxi driver named Dilawar in the US prison at Bagram airbase, Afghanistan. Such was the f...

It started as a documentary film and was co-funded by BBC Television as part of their 'Why Democracy?' season. Directed by the acclaimed American documentary maker Alex Gibney, the film won an Oscar for best documentary 2008. It is a chilling and compelling account of torture, abuse and murder, of an innocent taxi driver named Dilawar in the US prison at Bagram airbase, Afghanistan. Such was the f...

Narrated by Johnny Depp, this documentary about the life of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson features interviews with the late writer's contemporaries, including Ralph Steadman, George McGovern, Jann Wenner, Jimmy Carter, and Tom Wolfe. GONZO is directed by Alex Gibney, the filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning documentary TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE.

In what sadly may become a regular feature of our industry coverage here at Defamer, we feel compelled today to recap one of the ugliest weeks in recent memory among those toiling in the independent-film trenches. if you haven't been able to keep it all straight before now, please read on (and keep the liquor handy): · The week started with ex-Miramax/present Film Department topper Mark Gil...

Watch the trailer for 'Taxi To The Dark Side' released on DVD by Revolver Entertainment

Although big-name documentaries such as An Inconvenient Truth and Sicko have raised the genre's profile, recent ones just aren't pulling in audiences, the Los Angeles Times reports. The critically acclaimed steroid film Bigger, Stronger, Faster has grossed only $164,000 since its release three weeks ago, and the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side topped out at $275,000.

All the drama affecting David O. Russell's new film Nailed settled down a bit Monday when production resumed on the South Carolina set. But while the producers squared away their money issues with SAG, which shut shooting down last Friday, our own suspicions about precariously-budgeted distributor ThinkFilm got another look from Variety yesterday afternoon: ThinkFilm is known to owe substantial am...

ThinkFilm today announced its acquisition of theatrical and DVD rights to the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which made as many headlines recently for its acclaimed Sundance run as for being dumped in New York and Pasadena for a week by its Oscar-craving original buyers at HBO. The cable network retains the broadcast rights, planning a June 9 premiere ahead of ThinkFilm's July 11 ...

Exec. producers of the Oscar-winning film discuss abuse and torture at U.S. detention centers.

Errol Morris takes on Abu Ghraib. Plus: The problem with Judd Apatow.

There's plenty of studio hand-wringing and noose-tying to go around as movies about the Iraq War yield one box-office bomb after another. But a feature in this week's Village Voice reveals a new strategy for getting over those wartime blahs and rolling back into the black: Make 'em laugh! Not that the heirs to Dr. Strangelove or M*A*S*H are any new breed, of course, but if we can't cash in on grav...

THE Eliot Spitzer hooker scandal is getting the documentary treatment. And from an Oscar winner, no less. Filmmaker Alex Gibney, who won a 2007 Academy Award for "Taxi to the Dark Side," is talking to distributors and financiers about his...