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.

• DirectorSarah Burns
• Release24 May 2012
• GenreDocumentary
• Duration1h 59m
• Budget?
• Revenue$273,747
• Rate
  

  6.991
  117 reviews
• Productions

  WETA, Florentine Films