The Central Park five
Type
Label
The Central Park five
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
NRA
Main title
The Central Park five
Medium
electronic resource
Runtime
120
Summary
This new film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns 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 the five young men whose lives were upended by this miscarriage of justice
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
Subject
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- New York (State) -- New York
- Rape -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
- Assault and battery -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
- Meili, Trisha
- Violent crimes -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
- United States -- Race relations
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Judicial error -- New York (State) -- New York
- Central Park Jogger Rape Trial, New York, N.Y., 1990
- Rape victims -- New York (State) -- New York
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- New York (State) -- New York
Content
resource.cinematographer
Composer
resource.filmeditor
Interviewee
resource.screenwriter
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor15
- Genre1
- Subject11
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- New York (State) -- New York
- Rape -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
- Assault and battery -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
- Meili, Trisha
- Violent crimes -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
- United States -- Race relations
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Judicial error -- New York (State) -- New York
- Central Park Jogger Rape Trial, New York, N.Y., 1990
- Rape victims -- New York (State) -- New York
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- New York (State) -- New York
- Content1
- resource.cinematographer2
- Composer1
- Director3
- resource.filmeditor1
- Interviewee7
- Producer3
- resource.screenwriter3