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Prohibition

79 %|Oct 2, 2011|Documentary

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.

Karen Kenton
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Tricia Reidy
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Ryan Gifford
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Jean Lane
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Christopher Darling
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Ken Burns
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Maria Torfeld
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Lynn Novick
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Peter Coyote
Self - Narrator (voice)
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Daniel Okrent
Self - Author
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Pete Hamill
Self - Historian
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Noah Feldman
Self - Legal Scholar
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Adam Arkin
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Philip Bosco
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Patricia Clarkson
Reader / Carrie Nation (voice)
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Kevin Conway
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Blythe Danner
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Paul Giamatti
Reader / George Remus (voice)
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Tom Hanks
Reader / Roy Olmstead (voice)
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Jeremy Irons
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Samuel L. Jackson
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John Lithgow
Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
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Josh Lucas
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Amy Madigan
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Carolyn McCormick
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Oliver Platt
Reader / Al Capone (voice)
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Campbell Scott
Reader / F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice)
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Frances Sternhagen
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Joanne Tucker
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Sam Waterston
Reader (voice)