Prohibition. Episode 1, Nation of drunkards / a production of Florentine Films and WETA Television ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Sarah Botstein, Lynn Novick and Ken Burns ; directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Burns, Ken, 1953- Director, Producer.

Coyote, Peter., Narrator.

Novick, Lynn., Director, Producer.

Ward, Geoffrey C., Screenwriter.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alcoholism.

Depressions--1929.

Depressions.

Prohibition--United States.

Prohibition.

United States--History.

United States.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 min.)

Place of Publication:

[Arlington, VA] : Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2011.

Language Note:

This edition in English.

Summary:

This episode part of a series on the Prohibition deals with the early days of the nation, men drink cider and beer all day long and at nearly every occasion, from barn-raisings and baptisms to funerals and public hangings. But as hard whiskey becomes increasingly affordable and saloons turn more and more drunks into the gutter, America seems to have become a nation of drunkards. Unable to vote, women in Ohio shut down taverns by praying on their doorsteps. In Kansas, Carrie Nation attacks hotel bars with her hatchet, and preachers, progressives, and puritans everywhere join the campaign for temperance. Eventually, they demand a constitutional amendment to rid the country of the scourge of drink. But Americans are about to discover that making Prohibition the law of the land is one thing; enforcing it will be another.

Participant:

Narrated by Peter Coyote with Patricia Clarkson, Blythe Danner, Paul Giamatti, Tom Hanks, John Lithgow and Oliver Platt.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Jun. 17, 2014).

OCLC:

884831041

Publisher Number:

ASP2362567/marc