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The Central Park Five · 2012 ·

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The Central Park Five
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Movie Details
Production information
11 fields
Released
2012-05-24
Runtime
119 min
Genre
Documentary
Director
Sarah Burns, Ken Burns, David McMahon
Writer
David McMahon, Sarah Burns, Ken Burns
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Status
Released
Revenue
$273,747
Production
WETA, Florentine Films
Cast
Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kharey Wise, Matias Reyes, Jim Dwyer, Angela Black, Ed Koch, Craig Steven Wilder
Storyline

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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