The Central Park Five (2012)
- Directed by
- Sarah Burns, Ken Burns
- Genre
- documentary film, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 121 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
This documentary covers the arrests, trials, and eventual exoneration of five teenagers wrongly convicted in the Central Park jogger case. It follows the legal process and the men's experiences from 1989 through the overturning of their convictions.
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What happens
The Central Park Five is a 2012 documentary film about the Central Park jogger case, directed by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon. It covers the arrests, interrogations, trials, convictions and vacating the convictions of the five men who were teenagers in 1989 at the time of the case. It was released in the US on November 23, 2012, April 16, 2013 as a television premiere on PBS. Sarah Burns published related books on the case, under two different titles: The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding (2011) and The Central Park Five: The Untold Story Behind One of New York City's Most Infamous Crimes (2012). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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