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Ken Burns: The Central Park Five

Year

2013

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

2h 0m

Rating

R

CC

Directed By

Ken Burns

Publication Information

PBS

Summary

This 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 the five young men whose lives were upended by this miscarriage of justice.

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