The Central Park Five (2012)

The Central Park Five (2012)

Brilliantly disturbing Ken Burns documentary that examines the notorious 1989 N.Y. City case of four black and one Latino teenager who were falsely accused and convicted of raping and brutally assaulting a white woman jogger in Central Park… After spending between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime…

The subject matter within this documentary strikes eerie similarities to “The West Memphis 3” and the ‘Norfolk Four‘ cases where innocent young men and boys were sentenced to lengthy prison sentences based solely on ‘coerced‘ confessions attained by aggressive detectives, over-zealous prosecutors looking to bank some professional career advancement , public outrage and the insatiable media frenzy that surrounded the cases at the time and fed that misguided outrage…

THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, a new film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, 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.. PBS