Mayday
2003 · Documentary · Drama
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TV series / 2011
Prohibition
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.
The story
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.
The seasons
Season 1
Miniseries
Season details
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…
Special episodes
Specials
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Cast
Peter CoyoteSelf - Narrator (voice)
Daniel OkrentSelf - Author
Pete HamillSelf - Historian
Noah FeldmanSelf - Legal Scholar
Adam ArkinReader (voice)
Philip BoscoReader (voice)
Patricia ClarksonReader / Carrie Nation (voice)
Kevin ConwayReader (voice)
Blythe DannerReader (voice)
Paul GiamattiReader / George Remus (voice)
Tom HanksReader / Roy Olmstead (voice)
Jeremy IronsReader (voice)
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Samuel L. JacksonReader (voice)
John LithgowReader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
Josh LucasReader (voice)
Amy MadiganReader (voice)
Carolyn McCormickReader (voice)
Oliver PlattReader / Al Capone (voice)
Campbell ScottReader / F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice)
Frances SternhagenReader (voice)
Joanne TuckerReader (voice)
Sam WaterstonReader (voice)
John Paul StevensSelf
Freddie JohnsonSelf - Historian
Dorothea BrownSelf
Studs TerkelSelf - Writer
Roger AngellSelf
Franklin D. RooseveltSelf (archive footage)
Hymie WeissSelf (archive footage)
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