Prohibition

About Prohibition

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…

Prohibition is a documentary series made for PBS. It reached one season of 3 episodes from October 2011.

Peter Coyote leads the cast as Self - Narrator (voice), Daniel Okrent as Self - Author, Pete Hamill as Self - Historian, and Noah Feldman as Self - Legal Scholar. It was produced by Florentine Films and WETA.

Members will find 1930s, 1920s, USA politics, and USA history in it. American members can watch it on HISTORY Vault Amazon Channel, HISTORY Vault Apple TV channel, and PBS.

Boardwalk Empire, Brideshead Revisited, and Spider-Noir make useful companions to Prohibition, all filed under bootlegging and prohibition era. It scores 7.8 out of 10 from 53 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-14 rating.