When They See Us, Ava DuVernay‘s new Netflix miniseries, wants viewers to see Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana Jr. and Korey Wise. For most of their lives, the five ...

Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix Alexandra Templer as Trisha Meili in the Netflix drama When They See Us, which is based on the story of the Central Park Five As the DNA evidence from semen found at the ...

Netflix series When They See Us has become a national sensation since ... the harrowing true story of the Central Park Five has been the most watched program on Netflix every day since it first ...

One of the most shameful miscarriages of justice in New York state is powerfully and heartbreakingly dramatized in Ava DuVernay’s “When They See Us ... of the Central Park Five, the ...

Ava DuVernay corrects history to illuminate the inhumane treatment of the Central Park ... on us. They will lock us up. They will kill us.” Using the expressive, emotional range of these five ...

The project was initially titled The Central Park Five, a reference to the name the media dubbed the five teens from Harlem who were convicted.The title change to When They See Us was to embrace ...

Jharrel Jerome, easily the breakout of When They See Us, is the only actor who plays one of the Central Park Five as both a teenager and adult. His performance left me shaken. He brings fear and ...

Yusef Salaam, one of the Exonerated Five, spent seven years in prison ... we found out just like everybody else found out in When They See Us. We didn’t know what Raymond [Santana] was going ...

"When They See Us," with the men whose stories it tells — five men who were wrongly accused as teenagers of the brutal rape of a jogger in New York City's Central Park — it was emotional for ...

Now Netflix will offer its own take on the Central Park Five. When They See Us, a non-fiction reenactment, casts actors to represent the five men, as well as other players, over a period of 25 years.