The Central Park Five

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• Genre(s): Documentary
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David Mcmahon
• Cast(s): Jim Dwyer, Ed Koch, David Dinkins, Mario Cuomo, Rudolph Giuliani See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 59min
• Music: Doug Wamble
• Award(s): Peabody 2014 (Won)
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• Similar To: Untold: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill, Untold: Chess Mates
• Story:
  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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