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Creator: | Ken Burns, Lynn Novick |
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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. |
Name | Character | Episodes |
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Tom Hanks | Reader / Roy Olmstead (voice) | 3 |
Samuel L. Jackson | Reader (voice) | 3 |
Jeremy Irons | Reader (voice) | 3 |
John Lithgow | Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice) | 3 |
Paul Giamatti | Reader / George Remus (voice) | 3 |
Josh Lucas | Reader (voice) | 3 |
Patricia Clarkson | Reader / Carrie Nation (voice) | 3 |
Peter Coyote | Self - Narrator (voice) | 3 |
Adam Arkin | Reader (voice) | 3 |
Oliver Platt | Reader / Al Capone (voice) | 3 |
Blythe Danner | Reader (voice) | 3 |
Carolyn McCormick | Reader (voice) | 3 |
Kevin Conway | Reader (voice) | 3 |
Campbell Scott | Reader / F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice) | 3 |
Sam Waterston | Reader (voice) | 3 |
Philip Bosco | Reader (voice) | 3 |
Amy Madigan | Reader (voice) | 3 |
Joanne Tucker | Reader (voice) | 3 |
Frances Sternhagen | Reader (voice) | 3 |
Studs Terkel | Self - Writer | 1 |