

02/10/2011
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.

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)

Tom Hanks
as Reader / Roy Olmstead (voice)

Jeremy Irons
as Reader (voice)

Samuel L. Jackson
as Reader (voice)

John Lithgow
as Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)

Josh Lucas
as Reader (voice)

Amy Madigan
as Reader (voice)

Carolyn McCormick
as Reader (voice)

Oliver Platt
as Reader / Al Capone (voice)

Campbell Scott
as Reader / F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice)

Frances Sternhagen
as Reader (voice)

Joanne Tucker
as Reader (voice)

Sam Waterston
as Reader (voice)
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