Story
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.
The Central Park Five Movie Poster
The Central Park Five Cast & Crew
| Production Company: | WETA, Florentine Films |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Language: | English |
| Runtime: | 119 |
| Adult: | No |
| Genres: | Documentary |
| Website: | http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/centralparkfive/ |
| Release date: | 2012-05-24 |