Prohibition

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

Peter Coyote

Self - Narrator (voice)

Daniel Okrent

Self - Author

Pete Hamill

Self - Historian

Noah Feldman

Self - Legal Scholar

Adam Arkin

Reader (voice)

Philip Bosco

Reader (voice)

Patricia Clarkson

Reader / Carrie Nation (voice)

Kevin Conway

Reader (voice)

Blythe Danner

Reader (voice)

Paul Giamatti

Reader / George Remus (voice)

Tom Hanks

Reader / Roy Olmstead (voice)

Jeremy Irons

Reader (voice)

Samuel L. Jackson

Reader (voice)

John Lithgow

Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)

Josh Lucas

Reader (voice)

Amy Madigan

Reader (voice)

Carolyn McCormick

Reader (voice)

Oliver Platt

Reader / Al Capone (voice)

Campbell Scott

Reader / F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice)

Frances Sternhagen

Reader (voice)

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