PBS • 1 season • 3 episodes • Ended • English • 2011 •
8.2


- Cast
- Peter Coyote, Daniel Okrent, Patricia Clarkson, Paul Giamatti, Tom Hanks, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, John Lithgow, Josh Lucas, Amy Madigan, Campbell Scott, Sam Waterston
- Genre
- Documentary
- Tagline
- As a battle raged... an era roared
- 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.