The Central Park Five

The Central Park Five

7.0IMDb Score
Released:2012-05-24
Duration:119 min
Director:Sarah Burns, Ken Burns, David McMahon
Actors:Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kharey Wise
Production:WETA, Florentine Films

Overview:

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.

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