Prohibition (film)

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Television series
German title prohibition
Original title prohibition
Country of production United States
original language English (AE)
year 2011
length 330 minutes
genre documentation
idea Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
production Sarah Botstein ,
Lynn Novick ,
Ken Burns

Prohibition is a three-part documentary produced in 2011 by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick in the United States . The original narrator is Peter Coyote .

content

The documentation describes the impact that the Prohibition Act had on the United States and its society in the 1920s. These impacts included immigrant behavior, the rise in organized crime , political events and the influence on elections. It relates heavily to the book Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent .

Episodes

  • "A Nation of Drunkards" ( A Nation of Drunkards ) Stronger immigration, the women's rights movement and alcoholism are described as the cause and rationale for the passage of the prohibition law.
  • "A Nation of Scofflaws" ( A Nation of habitual criminals ) describes the unenforceability of the law and the rejection by the population and the rise of organized crime. This episode deals with the rise of Al Capone and the 1928 presidential campaign between Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith .
  • "A Nation of Hypocrites" ( A Nation of Hypocrites ) shows how the Great Depression after 1929 the attention of the Prohibition leads away, and ultimately leads to failure and end of the law.

Reviews

The film received a positive response from the critics:

  • "You can hear the story speak directly to you, about America of 2011 through Prohibition , an engaging five and a half hour documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ... Especially today, America's disastrous experiment to ban alcohol is made for, Santaya's quote" Who does not know history is condemned to repeat it "to confirm."
  • "Burns has the rare gift of the history professor to captivate even the most disinterested student by bringing the material to life."
  • " Prohibition offers a very fine analysis of a noble experiment."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of episodes on IMDb
  2. ↑ "A long and sober look at Prohibition history" , Los Angeles Times , October 1, 2011
  3. ^ Prohibition : Episode Guide . PBS. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
  4. ^ In the original: "You can hear history talking directly to the Americans of 2011 all through 'Prohibition,' an absorbing five-and-a-half-hour documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ... Especially now, the story of America's disastrous experiment with banning alcoholic beverages seems made for Santayana's phrase about learning from the past or being condemned to repeat it. " - "bellying up to the Time When America Went Dry", Neil Genzlinger, New York Times , 30 September 2011 (Engl. )
  5. ↑ In the original: "Burns has the similar gift of that rare history professor who can captivate even the most reluctant student by bringing the material to life." - Article by Hank Stuever, Washington Post , September 29, 2011 ( Memento from February 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ^ Originally: "Prohibition provides a very fine analytic survey of the noble experiment." - Troy Patterson, Slate , September 20, 2011 (Eng.)

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