Prohibition

"As a battle raged… an era roared"

2011 ★ 7.9 1 Season TV-14 IMDb Ended English Ken Burns, Lynn Novick

Overview

The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). After nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve the lives of all citizens by protecting individuals, families and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse; but paradoxically it made millions of people rethink their definition of morality.

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The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). After nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve the lives of all citizens by protecting individuals, families and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse; but paradoxically it made millions of people rethink their definition of morality…

Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote

Self - Narrator (voice)

Daniel Okrent

Daniel Okrent

Self - Author

Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill

Self - Historian

Noah Feldman

Noah Feldman

Self - Legal Scholar

Adam Arkin

Adam Arkin

Reader (voice)

Philip Bosco

Philip Bosco

Reader (voice)

Patricia Clarkson

Patricia Clarkson

Reader / Carrie Nation (voice)

Kevin Conway

Kevin Conway

Reader (voice)

Blythe Danner

Blythe Danner

Reader (voice)

Paul Giamatti

Paul Giamatti

Reader / George Remus (voice)

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks

Reader / Roy Olmstead (voice)

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

Reader (voice)

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