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FREE SCREENING IN SUPPORT OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER CAMPAIGN

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, The Central Park Five tells the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamouring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.


“"The Central Park Five" is worth seeing, both for the ways it's timeless and for the ways it encapsulates an era.” - Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle


“It’s a film that everybody with an interest in justice should see.” - Jennie Kermode, EyeForFilm


“Perhaps the most devastating portrait of contemporary social inequality to appear in an American documentary.” - David Denby, The New Yorker

  • Year
    2012
  • Runtime
    119 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Rating
    15
  • Director
    Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
  • Cast
    Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Kharey Wise, Matias Reyes.