American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi point that it named an oil tanker after her. Today, Stanford University students are trying to get her ousted as a professor because of her role in illegal torture. American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi is a 2009 documentary film by British filmmaker Sebastian Doggart that portrays the life and career of former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The film is an investigative documentary, in the style of "Taxi to the Dark Side" and "Fahrenheit 9/11". Unlike those films, however, it is told entirely through expert interviewees, favorable and critical, and the testimony
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