PROHIBITION (2011)

Prohibition
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Prohibition
As a battle raged… an era roared
Documentary
October 2, 2011 - October 4, 2011
Ended
|1 Season, 3 episodes
United States
English
PBS

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.

Episode Guide

Cast & Characters

Peter Coyote

Self - Narrator (voice)

Daniel Okrent

Self - Author

Pete Hamill

Self - Historian

Noah Feldman

Self - Legal Scholar

Adam Arkin

Reader (voice)

Philip Bosco

Reader (voice)

Patricia Clarkson

Reader / Carrie Nation (voice)

Kevin Conway

Reader (voice)

Blythe Danner

Reader (voice)

Paul Giamatti

Reader / George Remus (voice)

Tom Hanks

Reader / Roy Olmstead (voice)

Jeremy Irons

Reader (voice)

Samuel L. Jackson

Reader (voice)

John Lithgow

Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)

Josh Lucas

Reader (voice)

Amy Madigan

Reader (voice)

Carolyn McCormick

Reader (voice)

Oliver Platt

Reader / Al Capone (voice)

Campbell Scott

Reader / F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice)

Frances Sternhagen

Reader (voice)

Joanne Tucker

Reader (voice)

Sam Waterston

Reader (voice)

Freddie Johnson

Self - Historian

Crew

Ken Burns

Production

Karen Kenton

Production

Lynn Novick

Production

McKay McFadden

Production

Jean Lane

Production

Mike Welt

Production

Sarah Botstein

Production

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