Prohibition (2011)

Directors

Ken Burns

Cast

Adam Arkin, Amy Madigan, Blythe Danner, Campbell Scott, Frances Sternhagen, Jeremy Irons, John Lithgow, Josh Lucas, Oliver Platt, Patricia Clarkson, Paul Giamatti, Peter Coyote, Philip Bosco, Sam Waterston, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks

The story

Prohibition describes how the consumption and effect of alcoholic beverages in the United States were connected to many different cultural forces including immigration, women's suffrage, and the income tax. Eventually the Temperance movement led to the passing of Prohibition, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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