8.0

Taxi to the Dark Side

2007, USA

• Actors: Alex Gibney, Brian Keith Allen, Moazzam Begg, Christopher Beiring, Willie Brand, George W. Bush, Jack Cafferty, Brian Cammack, William Cassara, Doug Cassel, Dick Cheney, Jack Cloonan, Damien Corsetti, Thomas Curtis, Greg D'Agostino, Lynndie England, Tommy Franks, Carlotta Gall, John Galligan, Frank Gibney, Tim Golden, Alberto Gonzales, Charles A. Graner, Gita Gutierrez, David Hayden, Donald O. Hebb, Scott Hennen, Jay Hood, Scott Horton, John Hutson
• Genre: Documentary, Crime, War
• Director(s): Alex Gibney
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Using the torture and death in 2002 of an innocent Afghan taxi driver as the touchstone, this film examines changes after 9/11 in U.S. policy toward suspects in the war on terror. Soldiers, their attorneys, one released detainee, U.S. Attorney John Yoo, news footage and photos tell a story of abuse at Bagram Air Base, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay. From Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Gonzalez came unwritten orders to use any means necessary. The CIA and soldiers with little training used sleep deprivation, sexual assault, stress positions, waterboarding, dogs and other terror tactics to seek information from detainees. Many speakers lament the loss of American ideals in pursuit of security.

  7.6

Fahrenheit 9/11

2004, USA

• Actors: Ben Affleck, Stevie Wonder, George W. Bush, James Baker III, Richard Gephardt, Tom Daschle, Jeffrey Toobin, Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Saddam Hussein, George Bush, Ricky Martin, Byron Dorgan, Osama Bin Laden, Craig Unger, Larry King, Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Jack Cloonan, Bill Clinton, James C. Moore, Robert Jordan, Dan Briody, John Major, Helen Thomas, Carol Ashley, Thomas Kean, Rosemary Dillard, Richard Clarke, Paul Wolfowitz
• Genre: Documentary, History, War
• Director(s): Michael Moore
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Following up on 'Bowling for Columbine', film-maker Michael Moore provides deep and though-provoking insights on the American security system, the level of paranoia, fear, uncertainty, false values and patriotism, which all combined together to set a stage for George W. Bush to launch a war on Iraq instead of focusing on getting the real culprit(s) behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This documentary also focuses on how some Saudis were safely and secretly flown out of America while planes were ostensibly grounded after the attacks. Archived film footage, candid interviews with politicians, and an overall waste of public funds for a war that was initiated on false pretension to wit: a weapon of mass distraction - to take the focus away from the real enemy and get Americans glued to their TV sets to watch innocent Iraqis and Afghans getting killed. And a war that would eventually alienate the U.S.A. and it's citizens from almost every country on Earth.