The Central Park Five: Preview Screening with Clips and Discussion

Directors Ken Burns and Sarah Burns in discussion with Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam of The Central Park Five. Moderated by Brent Staples.

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 clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.

The Central Park Five is a new film by Ken Burns and his daughter Sarah and David McMahon.