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Taxi to the Dark Side: Plot, Reception & Overview

Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney, and produced by Gibney, Eva Orner, and Susannah Shipman. It won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It focuses on the December 2002 killing of an Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar, who was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in…

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Taxi to the Dark Side topic overview

The analysis highlights Plot, Reception and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Taxi to the Dark Side.

Related topics
45
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
50
Extracted relationships
39
Related term clusters
21
Bridge connections
50

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 17 topics
Plot · 12 topics
Reception · 10 topics
Censorship allegations and legal disputes · 4 topics
Release · 2 topics

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Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Country
United States
Directed by
Alex Gibney
Distributed by
THINKFilm
Edited by
Sloane Klevin
Language
English
Music by
Ivor Guest Robert Logan

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Overview

Plot

Release

Reception

Censorship allegations and legal disputes

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How Taxi to the Dark Side connects Entity context

The extracted context around Taxi to the Dark Side shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Taxi to the Dark Side → Dark Side, Discovery Channel, February, Gibney's, HBO, In June, Oscar, September, Taxi, THINKFilm Another extracted example is Taxi to the Dark Side → Bill White, Dark Side, Metacritic, Premiere, Rotten Tomatoes, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Taxi, Terror, War. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Taxi to the Dark Side

Top relations

related to Censorship allegations and legal disputes · 10
Taxi to the Dark Side → Dark Side, Discovery Channel, February, Gibney's, HBO, In June, Oscar, September, Taxi, THINKFilm
related to Critical response · 9
Taxi to the Dark Side → Bill White, Dark Side, Metacritic, Premiere, Rotten Tomatoes, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Taxi, Terror, War
related to overview · 7
Taxi to the Dark Side → CIA's, Congress, Dark Side, Geneva Convention, Taxi, TV, US
is a · 2
Taxi to the Dark Side → 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney, intelligent
Country · 1
Taxi to the Dark Side → United States
Directed by · 1
Taxi to the Dark Side → Alex Gibney
Distributed by · 1
Taxi to the Dark Side → THINKFilm
Edited by · 1
Taxi to the Dark Side → Sloane Klevin
Language · 1
Taxi to the Dark Side → English
Music by · 1
Taxi to the Dark Side → Ivor Guest Robert Logan

Important terminology

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Important terminology

film documentary taxi 2007 dark side series also gibney afghan dilawar 2008 best produced us award bagram films broadcast democracy

Taxi to the Dark Side relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 39 structured relationships around Taxi to the Dark Side. Examples in this analysis include Taxi to the Dark Side → Country → United States and Taxi to the Dark Side → Directed by → Alex Gibney. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Taxi to the Dark SideCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Taxi to the Dark SideDirected byAlex Gibney1.00infobox
Taxi to the Dark SideDistributed byTHINKFilm1.00infobox
Taxi to the Dark SideEdited bySloane Klevin1.00infobox
Taxi to the Dark SideLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Taxi to the Dark SideMusic byIvor Guest Robert Logan1.00infobox
Taxi to the Dark SideProduced byAlex Gibney Eva Orner Susannah Shipman1.00infobox
Taxi to the Dark SideRelease dateApril 30, 2007 (2007-04-30)1.00infobox
Taxi to the Dark SideRunning time106 minutes1.00infobox
Taxi to the Dark SideWritten byAlex Gibney1.00infobox
Taxi to the Dark Sideis a2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney0.90text
Taxi to the Dark Sideis aintelligent0.90text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Taxi to the Dark Side bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Side, Taxi and Alex. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Taxi to the Dark Side
    • Side
    • Taxi
    • Alex
    • Gibney
    • Directed
    • Eva
    • Orner
    • Release
    • Shipman
    • Susannah
    • Produced
    • Broadcast
  • taxi to the dark side
    • Side
    • Taxi
    • Alex
    • Gibney
    • Directed
    • Eva
    • Orner
    • Release
    • Shipman
    • Susannah
    • Thinkfilm
    • Produced
  • documentary film
    • Academy
    • Feature
    • Won
    • Award
    • Series
    • Best
    • Gibney
    • Torture
    • Film
    • Taxi
    • Part
    • Democracy
  • alex gibney
    • Directed
    • Eva
    • Orner
    • Shipman
    • Susannah
    • Gibney
    • Award
    • Produced
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    • Dark
    • Side
    • Taxi
  • academy award for best documentary feature
    • Feature
    • Best
    • Gibney
    • Won
    • Award
    • Afghan
    • Academy
    • Documentary
    • Series
    • Driver
    • Film
    • Named
  • tribeca film festival
    • Torture
    • Gibney
    • Taxi
    • Side
    • Academy
    • Alex
    • Democracy
    • Feature
    • Named
    • Produced
    • Award
    • Films
  • writers guild of america award for best documentary screenplay
    • Best
    • Gibney
    • Feature
    • Won
    • Afghan
    • Academy
    • Award
    • Documentary
    • Series
    • Film
    • Part
    • Democracy
  • academy award
    • Feature
    • Best
    • Gibney
    • Won
    • Award
    • Afghan
    • Documentary
    • Driver
    • Named
    • Democracy
    • Films
    • Taxi

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Taxi to the Dark Side, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Taxi to the Dark Side with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Taxi to the Dark Side — Overview · splits 33 ⟂ 18
Taxi to the Dark Side — Plot · splits 38 ⟂ 13
Taxi to the Dark Side — Reception · splits 40 ⟂ 11
Taxi to the Dark Side — Censorship allegations and legal disputes · splits 46 ⟂ 5
Taxi to the Dark Side — Release · splits 48 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Taxi to the Dark Side

Nodes51
Edges50
Triples39
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.039216
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Taxi to the Dark Side to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Plot, Reception & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Taxi to the Dark Side · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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