Episodes
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The Central Park Five
S1 E1 - 1h 59m
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE 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 these five teenagers whose lives were upended by this miscarriage of justice.
Extras + Features
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Confessions vs. Evidence
9m
After the jogger was discovered the detectives tried to fit the narrative to the five teenagers they had in custody.
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Media Response
1m 34s
The media response to the Central Park Jogger case was swift and prejudiced.
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Police Control Story
5m 1s
The police controlled the story to the news media and for them, all the pieces came into place. Upon closer investigation the time sequence of the jogger's movement do not add up with the police narrative. It does not matter once guilt is established, through the confessions, and they carry the case.
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