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Central Park Five

The story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park in 1989. Directed and produced by Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns, the film chronicles the Central Park Jogger case, from the perspective of the five teenagers whose lives were upended by this miscarriage of justice.

En español | Los cinco de Central Park

1h 59m

En 1989, cinco adolescentes de Harlem son condenados injustamente por un crimen brutal.

Episodes

  • The Central Park Five: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Central Park Five

    S1 E1 - 1h 58m

    THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park in 1989. The film chronicles The Central Park Jogger case, for the first time from the perspective of these five teenagers whose lives were upended by this miscarriage of justice.

Extras + Features

  • Interrogation: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Interrogation

    S1 E1 - 56s

    Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana discuss the manipulation of their interrogation.

  • Proxy War: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Proxy War

    S1 E1 - 35s

    Jim Dwyer of the New York Times talks about the Central Park Five being caught in a proxy war.

  • Official Trailer: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Official Trailer

    S1 E1 - 2m 26s

    THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park in 1989. Directed and produced by Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns, the film chronicles the Central Park Jogger case, from the perspective of the five teenagers whose lives were upended by this miscarriage of justice

  • Confessions: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Confessions

    S1 E1 - 6m 16s

    After hours of intense interrogation, seasoned detectives intimidate the five teenagers into falsely convicting each other.

  • Police Control Story: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Police Control Story

    S1 E1 - 5m 1s

    The police controlled the story to the news media and for them, all the pieces came into place. Upon closer investigation the time sequence of the jogger's movement do not add up with the police narrative. It does not matter once guilt is established, through the confessions, and they carry the case.

  • Death Penalty: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Death Penalty

    S1 E1 - 2m 5s

    Natalie Byfield discusses the horror of the death penalty even being talked about in the context of the Central Park Five case.

  • Media Response: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Media Response

    S1 E1 - 1m 34s

    The media response to the Central Park Jogger case was swift and prejudiced.

  • Crime in New York City: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Crime in New York City

    S1 E1 - 8m 53s

    The Central Park Five describe their lives before April 20, 1989. New Yorkers talk about a city divided between the very rich and the very poor. In 1984 crack cocaine comes to the city and the crime rate soars.

  • Confessions vs. Evidence: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Confessions vs. Evidence

    S1 E1 - 9m

    After the jogger was discovered the detectives tried to fit the narrative to the five teenagers they had in custody.

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