Ken Burns: Prohibition
Movies & TV / DVD
Movies/TV › History & Culture: American
UPC: 841887014335 / Publisher: PBS (Direct), June 2011
Explores the consequences of the Eighteenth Amendment and raises questions about the role of government in legislating morality.
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Prohibition explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor. The story of prohibition's rise and fall is a compelling saga that goes far beyond the oft-told tales of gangsters, rum runners, flappers, and speakeasies, to reveal a complicated and divided nation in the throes of momentous transformation.
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