Who narrates prohibition on PBS?
Peter Coyote
The series originally aired on PBS between October 2, 2011 and October 4, 2011. It was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities….Prohibition (miniseries)
Prohibition | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Written by | Geoffrey C. Ward |
Directed by | Ken Burns Lynn Novick |
Narrated by | Peter Coyote |
Is Ken Burns prohibition on Netflix?
Here are the Ken Burns you can stream now: Ken Burns: The Civil War. Ken Burns: Prohibition. Ken Burns: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
How many episodes of Ken Burns prohibition are there?
three
About the Film Prohibition is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed.
Did Prohibition really work?
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the evidence also suggests Prohibition really did reduce drinking. Despite all the other problems associated with Prohibition, newer research even indicates banning the sale of alcohol may not have, on balance, led to an increase in violence and crime.
How many murders were there during Prohibition?
The homicide rate in the US reached it’s highest figure in the final year of Prohibition, with 9.7 homicides per 100,000 people in 1933, before falling to roughly half of this rate over the next ten years (this decrease in the early 1940s was also facilitated by the draft for the Second World War).
What was a nickname for homemade whiskey?
Different languages and countries have their own terms for moonshine (see Moonshine by country). In English, moonshine is also known as mountain dew, choop, hooch, homebrew, mulekick, shine, white lightning, white/corn liquor, white/corn whiskey, pass around, firewater, bootleg.
Why was alcohol made legal again in the 1920s?
National prohibition of alcohol (1920–33) — the “noble experiment” — was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America.