The Central Park Five
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Angela Black · Antron McCray · Craig Steven Wilder · Ed Koch · Jim Dwyer · Kevin Richardson · Kharey Wise · Matias Reyes · Raymond Santana · Yusef Salaam · David McMahon · Ken Burns · Sarah Burns