Prohibition

Name: Prohibition
Genre: Documentary
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Peter Coyote, Daniel Okrent, Pete Hamill, Noah Feldman, Adam Arkin

Documentary7.82011110m per episode1 season · 3 episodes

“As a battle raged… an era roared”

Creator: Ken Burns
Status: Ended
Language: English
Studio: WETA

Episodes

Cast

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)

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Storyline

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.