The Central Park Five (2012)

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.

Cast (44)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

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

C

Craig Steven Wilder

Self - Historian

L

LynNell Hancock

Self - Journalist

C

Calvin O. Butts III

Self - Reverend

R

Raymond Santana Sr.

Self - Raymond's Father

M

Michael Warren

Self - Lawyer

N

Natalie Byfield

Self - Daily News

S

Saul Kassin

Self - Social Psychologist

M

Michael Joseph

Self - Defense Lawyer

David Dinkins

Self - Former Mayor, New York

R

Ronald Gold

Self - Juror #5

H

Humberto Arroyo

Self (archive footage)

B

Bobby Burns

Self (archive footage)

R

Robert Colangelo

Self (archive footage)

Mario Cuomo

Self (archive footage)

H

Howard Diller

Self (archive footage)

L

Linda Fairstein

Self (archive footage)

Rudolph Giuliani

Self (archive sound)

B

Bernard Goetz

Self (archive footage)

C

Carlos Gonzalez

Self (archive footage)

J

John Gotti

Self (archive footage)

J

John Hartigan

Self (archive footage)

E

Elizabeth Lederer

Self (archive footage)

J

Jack Maple

Self (archive footage)

B

Bobby McCray

Self (archive footage)

L

Linda McCray

Self (archive footage)

C

Colin Moore

Self (archive footage)

R

Robert Morgenthau

Self (archive footage)

P

Paul L. Richardson

Self (archive footage)

P

Peter Rivera

Self (archive footage)

A

Aaron Rosenthal

Self - Assistant Chief of Detectives (archive footage)

S

Sharonne Salaam

Self (archive footage)

Al Sharpton

Self (archive footage)

M

Mike Sheehan

Self (archive footage)

Donald Trump

Self (archive footage)

B

Ben Ward

Self (archive Footage)

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