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The Central Park Five

The Central Park Five

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 24, 2012

Runtime

1h 59m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

The Central Park Five

Production Companies

WETA, Florentine Films

Director

Ken Burns

Revenue

$273,747

Description

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.