Miniseries
(2011)
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…
Cast
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Self - Author
as Self - Historian
as Self - Legal Scholar
as Reader (voice)
as Reader (voice)
as Reader / Carrie Nation (voice)
as Reader (voice)
as Reader (voice)
as Reader / George Remus (voice)
as Reader / Roy Olmstead (voice)
as Reader (voice)
as Reader (voice)
as Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
as Reader (voice)
as Reader (voice)
as Reader (voice)
as Reader / Al Capone (voice)
as Reader / F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice)
as Reader (voice)
as Reader (voice)
as Reader (voice)
Episodes
A Nation of Drunkards 6.0
October 2, 2011
The start of the temperance movement in the 19th century under the stewardship of such leaders as Elizabeth Cady Stanto…
A Nation of Scofflaws 6.0
October 3, 2011
The problems that the Volstead Act and Prohibition caused, including a possible increase in alcoholism due to women fre…
A Nation of Hypocrites 6.0
October 4, 2011
The factors that led to the end of Prohibition. The criminalizing of alcohol feeds large profits into the coffers of cr…