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Prohibition

2011 – 2011 · PBS
1 seasons · 3 episodes
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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.

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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…

SERIES 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)
Created by Ken Burns

DETAILS

Status
Ended
Type
Miniseries
First aired
Oct 2, 2011
Original language
EN
Production
WETA, Florentine Films
Country
US

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