The Netflix scripted series takes place over the course of 25 years — from when the teens are first questioned to their exoneration in 2002.
Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us follows the lives of the Central Park Five, a group of five young people who were falsely charged with assaulting and raping a jogger in 1989. The Netflix scripted series takes place over the course of 25 years — from when the teens are first questioned to their exoneration in 2002.