Prohibition
2011, Series, 60 min, Crime, Documentary, History, English, United States, MoviePedia score 73
As a battle raged… an era roared
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.
Directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
Cast
- Peter Coyote as Self - Narrator
- Pete Hamill as Self - Writer
- Catherine Gilbert Murdock as Self - Historian
- Michael Lerner as Self - Historian
- Daniel Okrent as Self - Writer
- Noah Feldman as Self - Legal Scholar
- Jack Roche as Self - Resident of Chicago
- William Leuchtenburg as Self - Historian
- Patricia Clarkson as Eliza Hackett
- John Lithgow as H.L. Mencken
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