Prohibition
Peter Coyote (Narrator), Patricia Clarkson (Narrator), Blythe Danner (Performer), Paul Giamatti (Performer), Tom Hanks (Performer), John Lithgow (Performer), Oliver Platt (Performer), Geoffrey C. Ward (Screenwriter), Sarah Botstein (Producer), Lynn Novick (Producer, Director), Ken Burns (Producer, Director), Florentine Films, WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.), PBS Home Video
This videodisc explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight
DVD Video, English, [2011]
PBS Home Video, Culver City, Calif., [2011]