Prohibition
"As a battle raged… an era roared"
Cast & Crew
Peter Coyote
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Daniel Okrent
as Self - Author
Pete Hamill
as Self - Historian
Noah Feldman
as Self - Legal Scholar
Adam Arkin
as Reader (voice)
Philip Bosco
as Reader (voice)
Patricia Clarkson
as Reader / Carrie Nation (voice)
Kevin Conway
as Reader (voice)
Blythe Danner
as Reader (voice)
Paul Giamatti
as Reader / George Remus (voice)
Ken Burns
Creator
Lynn Novick
Creator
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.
