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DVD

The Central Park Five

Call Number

  • DVD 364.1532 C39755 (CEN, EAS)

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Languages

English or Spanish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Publication Information

[Boston] : PBS Distribution, [2013]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

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 documentary tells 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.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally produced as a documentary in 2012.

Special features: interview with the filmmakers ; After the Central Park Five.

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