Ken Burns's Prohibition -- coming to PBS | Sneak Peek | PBS

Coming this fall to PBS -- PROHIBITION, the upcoming film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the rise and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment.

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Film & Animation

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• history
• Chicago
• PBS
• Ken Burns
• Al Capone
• Prohibition
• Lynn Novick
• 18th Amendment
• Roaring 20s
• Jazz Age
• Volstead Act
• Bootleggers

[yurilisakimura]

When and what channel will this be airing?

[PBS]

@yurilisakimura PBS beginning Oct. 2

[quietpopcorn]

I can't wait to watch this show about marijuana.

What's that?

Oh, sorry, alcohol.

[mmmodafoca]

oh man.. Prohibition, I've heard mix stories or anecdotal evidence on why it was a good and bad idea. As a Mexican American i cannot deny that if it wasn't for prohibition in the US, the mexican Drug Cartels would probably not be as big as they are today :(.

[RPshakes]

wuts the name of the first song they play when the video just starts??

[Dancing88Mike]

boy that must have been an exciting age. Just before the Great Depression

[Jammmer20]

If possible I would like to know the title of the song at the beginning of this video.



[haibane13]

This documentry looks dumb from the get go , Ken Burns may be a good filmaker but he's a crumy historian . The story of prohibition is simple , Americans beleived and tried to elevate soceity to a greater status but not only did not acheive that but realised that Americans aren't such a great people after all .

[vivaguatemala4123456]

This is basically the same crap that is happening today. We never learn from history....

[rumbler227]

I thought it was Ken Burns' best documentary since his Civil War. And it has so many parallels for today and lessons about government incursion in the personal lives of Americans. I don't think we've really learned anything from prohibition. It's sad really.

[fromthesidelines]

From January 16, 1920, through December 5, 1933- all hell broke loose. Tell people they can't have something....and they'll WANT it. This was the result of the great "dry experiment"...

[bijanbwb]

"Why is all the rum gone!"

[boringlyawesum]

I hadn't watched pbs since 2009 when the digital switch happened, I bought a digital TV antenna and it worked fine but the only channel it never picked up was PBS. I got used to not watching PBS so I never really looked into getting a stronger antenna, well it broke on me recently and sunday I got a new one. I ran the channel scan and their it was PBS. Later that evening I put it on and watched the whole series.............man what have I been missing?

[zeldafreak701]

@mofomango

I'm not disagreeing with you in the slightest. I agree that there is a parallel between prohibition and the war on drugs, and that they're both ridiculous. But this is about Prohibition, not the war on drugs. I can't look up one documentary without someone saying 'it's just like pot', and 'marijuana will take the same path'.