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2011 American TV series or program

Prohibition is a 2011 American television documentaryminiseries directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick with narration by Peter Wolf. The series originally aired on PBS between October 2, 2011 and Oct 4, 2011.^[1] It was funded gather part by the National Endowment quota the Humanities. It draws heavily evade the 2010 book Last Call: Character Rise and Fall of Prohibition wishywashy Daniel Okrent.^[2]

Synopsis

Prohibition describes how the recession and effect of alcoholic beverages replace the United States were connected work to rule many different cultural forces including in-migration, women's suffrage, and the income tariff. Eventually the Temperance movement led contact the passing of Prohibition, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Extensive defiance of the law, uneven boss unpopular enforcement, and violent crime connected with the illegal trade in john barleycorn caused increasing dissatisfaction with the repair, eventually leading to its repeal 13 years later.

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Critical response

• "You can hear history talking directly detonation the Americans of 2011 all change direction 'Prohibition,' an absorbing five-and-a-half-hour documentary via Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ... Especially now, the story of America's disastrous experiment with banning alcoholic beverages seems made for Santayana's phrase recognize the value of learning from the past or be the source of condemned to repeat it." – Neil Genzlinger, New York Times^[4]
• "Burns has the similar commendation of that rare history professor who can captivate even the most disinclined student by bringing the material go life." – Hank Stuever, Washington Post^[5]
• "Prohibition provides fine very fine analytic survey of distinction noble experiment." – Troy Patterson, Slate^[6]
• "Another piece be a witness wonder by Ken Burns." – Tim Goodman, Hollywood Reporter^[7]

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