![The Central Park Five](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/aKlQ8Sjr07OkCLuYkRYtpVSMm3e.jpg)
Plot
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.
Writer | Sarah Burns |
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Director | Sarah Burns & Ken Burns |
Actor | Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam |
Country | United States of America |
Production | WETA |