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  • Prohibition A Nation of Hypocrites (Season 1, Episode 3)
  • TV-PG
    TV Episode | 105 min | Documentary, History

Prohibition

A Nation of Hypocrites (Season 1, Episode 3)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 105 min | Documentary, History

With gangsters terrorizing the public and profiting from the sale of alcohol, many citizens believed Prohibition was unsuccessful, which led to its repeal.
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Directors
Writer
Geoffrey C. Ward (written by)
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Status
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Updated Oct 4, 2011

Release date
Oct 4, 2011 (United States)

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51 cast members
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Peter Coyote
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Pete Hamill
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Jonathan Eig
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Michael Lerner
Self - Historian Self - Historian   See fewer
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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Ruth Proskauer Smith
Self - Resident of New York Self - Resident of New York   See fewer
Joshua Zeitz
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Margot Loines Wilkie
Self - Resident of Massachusetts Self - Resident of Massachusetts   See fewer
Jack Clarke
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John Paul Stevens
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Daniel Okrent
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William Leuchtenburg
Self - Historian (as William E. Leuchtenburg) Self - Historian (as William E. Leuchtenburg)   See fewer
Noah Feldman
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Jack Roche
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Pauline Sabin Smith Willis
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Studs Terkel
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Martin Marty
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Edwin T. Hunt Jr.
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Adam Arkin
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Philip Bosco
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Patricia Clarkson
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Samuel L. Jackson
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John Lithgow
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Oliver Platt
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Campbell Scott
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Joanne Tucker
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Sam Waterston
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Lincoln Clark Andrews
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Hiram Bingham III
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Ella Boole
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James Cannon Jr.
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Al Capone
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Duke Ellington
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Texas Guinan
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Herbert Hoover
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Fiorello LaGuardia
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Meyer Lansky
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Lois Long
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George Moran
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Charles Dion O'Bannion
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Harold Ross
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Pauline Sabin
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Morris Sheppard
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Alfred E. Smith
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William Hale Thompson
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Johnny Torrio
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Hymie Weiss
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Wayne Bidwell Wheeler
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Mabel Willebrandt
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Gloria Swanson
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