Plot
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.
Trailer
Cast
Antron McCray
Self (voice)
Kevin Richardson
Self
Yusef Salaam
Self
Raymond Santana
Self
Kharey Wise
Self
Matias Reyes
Self (archive footage)
Jim Dwyer
Self - New York Times
Angela Black
Self - Kevin's Sister
Ed Koch
Self - Former Mayor, New York
Craig Steven Wilder
Self - Historian
LynNell Hancock
Self - Journalist
Calvin O. Butts III
Self - Reverend
Raymond Santana Sr.
Self - Raymond's Father
Michael Warren
Self - Lawyer
Natalie Byfield
Self - Daily News
Saul Kassin
Self - Social Psychologist
Michael Joseph
Self - Defense Lawyer
David Dinkins
Self - Former Mayor, New York
Ronald Gold
Self - Juror #5
Humberto Arroyo
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Burns
Self (archive footage)
Robert Colangelo
Self (archive footage)
Mario Cuomo
Self (archive footage)
Howard Diller
Self (archive footage)
Linda Fairstein
Self (archive footage)
Rudolph Giuliani
Self (archive sound)
Bernard Goetz
Self (archive footage)
Carlos Gonzalez
Self (archive footage)
John Gotti
Self (archive footage)
John Hartigan
Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth Lederer
Self (archive footage)
Jack Maple
Self (archive footage)
Bobby McCray
Self (archive footage)
Linda McCray
Self (archive footage)
Colin Moore
Self (archive footage)
Robert Morgenthau
Self (archive footage)
Paul L. Richardson
Self (archive footage)
Peter Rivera
Self (archive footage)
Aaron Rosenthal
Self - Assistant Chief of Detectives (archive footage)
Sharonne Salaam
Self (archive footage)
Al Sharpton
Self (archive footage)
Mike Sheehan
Self (archive footage)
Donald Trump
Self (archive footage)
Ben Ward
Self (archive Footage)
