The Central Park Five (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours
- 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 | Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon | |
| Composition by | Doug Wamble & Stephanie Jenkins | |
| Director of Photography: | Buddy Squires & Anthony Savini | |
| Hosted by | Lynnell Hancock, Natalie Byfield, Ed Koch, Craig Steven Wilder, Jim Dwyer, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Michael Warren, Calvin O. Butts, III, Korey Wise, David Dinkins, Sr. & Yusef Salaam |
Entertainment Reviews:
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"The Central Park Five" is a sobering indictment of racism and vigilante justice, yet it is constrained by a PBS-style deference to the very system it critiques.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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
Both meticulous and inflammatory, the documentary THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE re-examines the notorious 1989 case...
Washington Post
[A] patient, righteous documentary by Ken Burns, David McMahon, and Sarah Burns... -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
[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
Measured in tone and outraged in its argument, it is an emotionally stirring, at times crushingly depressing cinematic call to witness.
New York Times
It's more like an interesting, in-depth article in The New Yorker than a movie.
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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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