The Central Park Five
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 23, 2013
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: PBS (Direct)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon | |
| Edited by | Michael Levine | |
| Screenwriting by | David McMahon, Ken Burns & Sarah Burns | |
| Composition by | Doug Wamble & Stephanie Jenkins | |
| Director of Photography: | Anthony Savini & Buddy Squires | |
| Hosted by | Calvin O. Butts, III, Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, David Dinkins, Sr., Lynnell Hancock, Natalie Byfield, Ed Koch, Craig Steven Wilder, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Jim Dwyer & Michael Warren |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3/5 --
If The Central Park Five didn't use most of its runtime on historians, reporters and people peripheral to the case, it could have gone from run-of-the-mill procedural to gut-punch of injustice.
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Spectrum Culture
[A] painstaking, heartbreaking film....As history, it's a shattering portrait of New York at a time when the city, beset by violence and drowning in drugs, was frantic to assign blame for a terrible crime...
Wall Street Journal
Rating: 3/4 --
How could this second crime have occurred? The film asks that question but only partly answers it, and in the process it raises an even more troubling one.
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Washington Post
It's more like an interesting, in-depth article in The New Yorker than a movie.
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ScreenAnarchy
The Central Park Five is a vivid, involving documentary. The story it tells is a wrenching one, but it never succumbs to hyperbole or sensationalism.
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NPR's Fresh Air
[A] careful, thoughtful documentary....It projects equal parts fury and despair as it reveals how a particular group of individuals was caught in the unforgiving gears of the criminal justice system.
Los Angeles Times
It's a vivid and gripping documentary (although, at two hours, somewhat longer than it needs to be), a grave indictment of a city and a system at the breaking point.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Product Description:
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (PROHIBITION) teams with his daughter Sarah and her husband David McMahon to examine the facts in the case of five minority teens from Harlem who in 1989 were accused of committing a heinous rape in Central Park, and the failure of the authorities and the media to ensure that justice was served. Hastily tried and convicted as racial tensions in New York City spiked, the innocent teens all served time in prison before a serial rapist shocked authorities by admitting sole responsibility for the brutal sexual assault.
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