Prohibition

Original title: Prohibition

110 minutes • 2011 - 2011 • 1 season • 3 episodes • 7.9 Score

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.

Ken Burns

Creator

Lynn Novick

Creator

Documentary

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