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 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)