The Central Park Five

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.

• Sarah BurnsDirector
• Ken BurnsDirector
• David McMahonDirector
• David McMahonWriter
• Doug WambleOriginal Music Composer
• Sarah BurnsWriter
• Ken BurnsWriter

• Antron McCraySelf (voice)
• Kevin RichardsonSelf
• Yusef SalaamSelf
• Raymond SantanaSelf
• Kharey WiseSelf
• Matias ReyesSelf (archive footage)
• Jim DwyerSelf - New York Times
• Angela BlackSelf - Kevin's Sister
• Ed KochSelf
• Craig Steven WilderSelf - Historian
• LynNell HancockSelf - Journalist
• Calvin O. Butts IIISelf - Reverend