The Central Park Five (film)

Not to be confused with the April 19, 1989 criminal case, the 2019 opera based on the 1989 case, or When They See Us, a 2019 TV mini-series about the case.

The Central Park Five
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKen Burns
Sarah Burns
David McMahon
Production
company
Sundance Selects
WETA
Florentine Films
PBS
The Central Park Five Film Project
Distributed bySundance Selects
Release dates
  • May 24, 2012 (2012-05-24) (Cannes Film Festival)
  • November 23, 2012 (2012-11-23) (United States)
Running time
119 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Central Park Five is a 2012 documentary film about the Central Park jogger case, directed by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon.[1] It covers the arrests, interrogations, trials, convictions and vacating the convictions of the five men who were teenagers in 1989 at the time of the case. It was released in the US on November 23, 2012.

Sarah Burns published related books on the case, under two different titles: The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding (2011) and The Central Park Five: The Untold Story Behind One of New York City's Most Infamous Crimes (2012).

  1. ^ "NYC is pressed to settle Central Park jogger case". USA Today. April 6, 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2015.