The Central Park Five
7.0/10
Release: 24/05/2012
Duration: 1h 59m
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.
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Writers
Production
WETA
Florentine Films
Revenue: $273,747
Official Website:
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/cent...
