The Central Park Five
2012, Film, 119 min, Crime, Documentary, History, English, United States, MoviePedia score 70
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.
Directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Cast
- Antron McCray as Self - Wrongfully Convicted
- Kevin Richardson as Self - Wrongfully Convicted
- Kharey Wise as Self - Wrongfully Convicted
- Raymond Santana as Self - Wrongfully Convicted
- Yusef Salaam as Self - Wrongfully Convicted
- Jim Dwyer as Self - New York Times
- Angela Black as Self - Kevin's Sister
- Ed Koch as Self - Former Mayor, New York
- Craig Steven Wilder as Self - Historian
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