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The Central Park Five

70 %|May 24, 2012|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.

Featured Crew

Ken Burns
Screenplay
Sarah Burns
Director
Sarah Burns
Screenplay
Ken Burns
Director
David McMahon
Writer
David McMahon
Director
Doug Wamble
Original Music Composer

Cast

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Antron McCray
Self (voice)
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Matias Reyes
Self (archive footage)
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Jim Dwyer
Self - New York Times
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Angela Black
Self - Kevin's Sister
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Ed Koch
Self - Former Mayor, New York
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Craig Steven Wilder
Self - Historian
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LynNell Hancock
Self - Journalist
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Calvin O. Butts III
Self - Reverend
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Raymond Santana Sr.
Self - Raymond's Father
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Michael Warren
Self - Lawyer
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Natalie Byfield
Self - Daily News
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Saul Kassin
Self - Social Psychologist
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Michael Joseph
Self - Defense Lawyer
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David Dinkins
Self - Former Mayor, New York
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Ronald Gold
Self - Juror #5
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Humberto Arroyo
Self (archive footage)
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Bobby Burns
Self (archive footage)
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Robert Colangelo
Self (archive footage)
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Mario Cuomo
Self (archive footage)
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Howard Diller
Self (archive footage)
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Linda Fairstein
Self (archive footage)
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Rudolph Giuliani
Self (archive sound)
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Bernard Goetz
Self (archive footage)
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Carlos Gonzalez
Self (archive footage)
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John Gotti
Self (archive footage)
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John Hartigan
Self (archive footage)
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Elizabeth Lederer
Self (archive footage)
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Jack Maple
Self (archive footage)
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Bobby McCray
Self (archive footage)
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Linda McCray
Self (archive footage)
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Colin Moore
Self (archive footage)
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Robert Morgenthau
Self (archive footage)
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Paul L. Richardson
Self (archive footage)
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Peter Rivera
Self (archive footage)
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Aaron Rosenthal
Self - Assistant Chief of Detectives (archive footage)
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Sharonne Salaam
Self (archive footage)
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Al Sharpton
Self (archive footage)
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Mike Sheehan
Self (archive footage)
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Donald Trump
Self (archive footage)
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Ben Ward
Self (archive Footage)