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The Central Park Five

Name: The Central Park Five
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-05-24
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kharey Wise

20121h 59mDirected by Ken Burns

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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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