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Prohibition

IMDb 7.9 2011 β€’ 110 min β€’ Documentary

Director

Ken Burns

Country

US

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote Self - Narrator (voice)
Daniel Okrent
Daniel Okrent Self - Author
Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill Self - Historian
Noah Feldman
Noah Feldman Self - Legal Scholar
Adam Arkin
Adam Arkin Reader (voice)