A Nation of Drunkards. Episode 1 | 1h 36m Video has Closed Captions | CC. PROHIBITION tells the story of the rise and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment. Aired 10/02/2011 | Expires 01/01/2026 ...

"A Nation of Drunkards" – Part 1 of 3. Widespread alcohol consumption ignites the temperance movement. The 18th Amendment outlaws alcohol in 1917, but enforcing it proves to be a whole new ...

In 1920, Prohibition goes into effect, making it illegal to manufacture, transport or sell intoxicating liquor. ... Episode 1: "A Nation Of Drunkards" will repeat on Tuesday, ...

While Prohibition’s ... immeasurably greater than the disorderly conduct of a mob of drunkards. ... It became clear in the early 1930s that Prohibition was increasingly unpopular across the nation.

More than a century before anyone dreamed up a Big-Gulp ban, another civic-minded citizen decided that Americans were drinking too much for their own good, and had to be saved. Her name was Carry A… ...

The policy of prohibition would last. On January 16, 1919, Congress ratified the 18th Amendment which banned the manufacture, ... which had expanded throughout the nation by the early 20th century.

Episode 3: "A Nation Of Hypocrites" - Support for Prohibition diminishes in the mid-1920s as the playfulness of sneaking around for a drink gives way to disenchantment with its glaring unintended ...