The Central Park Five

Synopsis

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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Cast

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  Antron McCray
  Self (voice)

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  Kevin Richardson
  Self

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  Yusef Salaam
  Self

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  Raymond Santana
  Self

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  Kharey Wise
  Self

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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

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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