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.
Antron McCray
as Self (voice)
Kevin Richardson
as Self
Yusef Salaam
as Self
Raymond Santana
as Self
Kharey Wise
as Self
Matias Reyes
as Self (archive footage)
Jim Dwyer
as Self - New York Times
Angela Black
as Self - Kevin's Sister
Ed Koch
as Self - Former Mayor, New York
Craig Steven Wilder
as Self - Historian
LynNell Hancock
as Self - Journalist
Calvin O. Butts III
as Self - Reverend
