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The Central Park Five

NR
Movie
2012
1h 59m
English
Documentary
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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Antron McCray
Self (voice)
Matias Reyes
Self (archive footage)
Jim Dwyer
Self - New York Times
Angela Black
Self - Kevin's Sister
Ed Koch
Self - Former Mayor, New York
Craig Steven Wilder
Self - Historian
LynNell Hancock
Self - Journalist
Calvin O Butts III
Self - Reverend
Raymond Santana Sr
Self - Raymond's Father
Michael Warren
Self - Lawyer
Natalie Byfield
Self - Daily News
Saul Kassin
Self - Social Psychologist
Michael Joseph
Self - Defense Lawyer
David Dinkins
Self - Former Mayor, New York
Ronald Gold
Self - Juror #5
Humberto Arroyo
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Burns
Self (archive footage)
Robert Colangelo
Self (archive footage)
Mario Cuomo
Self (archive footage)
Howard Diller
Self (archive footage)
Linda Fairstein
Self (archive footage)
Written By: Ken Burns (Screenplay), Sarah Burns (Screenplay), + 1 more

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Nancy L Draper says...
5 years ago
This documentary concludes with a statement, by an historian, to the effect that the frenzied, sensational press coverage of the original trial of the boys was far more extensive than the coverage of the exoneration of the young men. This very fine documentary laid the groundwork for the TV series WHEN THEY SEE US and the subsequent OPRAH PRESENTS special called WHEN THEY SEE US NOW which, perhaps, in some cumulative way corrects the balance and hopefully informs a corrective of the systemic failures of both the justice system and the polarizing attitudes of society that are fuelled by fear, anger, hatred and isolation that corrupts our ability to rise above ourselves. This is an important story, told well. I give this documentary a 9 (superb) ou of 10. [Crime Documentary]
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