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Central Park Five

The Central Park Five

Season 1 Episode 1

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.

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Five teenagers from Harlem are wrongfully convicted of a brutal crime in 1989
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