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The Central Park Five (2012)
Director: Sarah Burns
Cast: Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana
Runtime119 min
RatingNR
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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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The Central Park Five, directed by Sarah Burns in 2012, is a powerful and meticulous documentary that examines the wrongful conviction of five young men in a high-profile crime, shedding light on the systemic racial injustices and media frenzy that led to this tragic miscarriage of justice. Featuring intimate interviews with the exonerated individuals, the film offers a deeply moving and thought-provoking exploration of the devastating impact of false accusations.
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The Central Park Five is a 2012 documentary film about the Central Park jogger case, directed by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon. It covers the arrests, interrogations, trials, convictions and vacating the convictions of the five men who were teenagers in 1989 at the time of the case. It was released in the US on November 23, 2012.
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