Story :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.
Cast
Antron McCraySelf (voice)
Kevin RichardsonSelf
Yusef SalaamSelf
Raymond SantanaSelf
Kharey WiseSelf
Matias ReyesSelf (archive footage)
Jim DwyerSelf - New York Times
Angela BlackSelf - Kevin's Sister
Ed KochSelf - Former Mayor, New York
Craig Steven WilderSelf - Historian
LynNell HancockSelf - Journalist
Calvin O. Butts IIISelf - Reverend
Raymond Santana Sr.Self - Raymond's Father
Michael WarrenSelf - Lawyer
Natalie ByfieldSelf - Daily News
Saul KassinSelf - Social Psychologist
Michael JosephSelf - Defense Lawyer
David DinkinsSelf - Former Mayor, New York
Ronald GoldSelf - Juror #5
Humberto ArroyoSelf (archive footage)
Bobby BurnsSelf (archive footage)
Robert ColangeloSelf (archive footage)
Mario CuomoSelf (archive footage)
Howard DillerSelf (archive footage)
Linda FairsteinSelf (archive footage)
Rudolph GiulianiSelf (archive sound)
Bernard GoetzSelf (archive footage)
Carlos GonzalezSelf (archive footage)
John GottiSelf (archive footage)
John HartiganSelf (archive footage)
Elizabeth LedererSelf (archive footage)
Jack MapleSelf (archive footage)
Bobby McCraySelf (archive footage)
Linda McCraySelf (archive footage)
Colin MooreSelf (archive footage)
Robert MorgenthauSelf (archive footage)
Paul L. RichardsonSelf (archive footage)
Peter RiveraSelf (archive footage)
Aaron RosenthalSelf - Assistant Chief of Detectives (archive footage)