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Crime in New York City

Season 1 Episode 1 | 8m 53s

The Central Park Five describe their lives before April 20, 1989. New Yorkers talk about a city divided between the very rich and the very poor. In 1984 crack cocaine comes to the city and the crime rate soars.

Extras
In Sept. 2012 the City of New York subpoenaed all the materials from the film.
Five teenagers from Harlem are wrongfully convicted of a brutal crime in 1989
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and Dave McMahon discuss their film, Central Park Five
The Central Park Five talk about what the film means to them.
Five teenagers from Harlem are wrongfully convicted of a brutal crime in 1989
Film making has become a family business for Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and Dave McMahon.
The Central Park Five did not take a plea bargain.
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon discuss the term, 'wilding.'
Jim Dwyer talks about the Central Park Five being caught in a proxy war.
The central park five are tricked into implicating themselves and each other.
Five teenagers from Harlem are wrongfully convicted of a brutal crime in 1989
En 1989, cinco adolescentes de Harlem son condenados injustamente por un crimen brutal.