Prohibition [DVD videorecording] / a film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick. - Culver City, Calif. : PBS Home Video, [2011] - 3 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. (in one container)

Special features: additional scenes ; interviews ; outtakes. Videodisc release of the 2011 television mini-series

Disc 1: A nation of drunkards , special features -- Disc 2: A nation of scofflaws -- Disc 3: A nation of hypocrites.

Narrator, Adam Arkin. Narrator, Adam Arkin.

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, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.


Closed-captioned.
English or Spanish dialogue.

1415760284

097368224742

822474 PBS Home Video


Prohibition--History.--United States
Liquor laws--History.--United States


United States--History--1919-1933.


Documentary films.

HV5089 / .P964 2011

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