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.
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)
Tom Hanks
as Reader / Roy Olmstead (voice)
Jeremy Irons
as Reader (voice)
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
