Prohibition(2011)
“As a battle raged… an era roared”
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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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Seasons
Miniseries
3 episodes • 2011
Cast
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)
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)
Crew
Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, Lynn Novick, Jean Lane, Karen Kenton
Networks
Details
Original Language
en
Country of Origin
US
Type
Miniseries
Production
WETA, Florentine Films
