Prohibition. Episode 3, A nation of hypocrites /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	[Arlington, VA] : Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (105 min.).
Language:	English
Series:	The PBS Video Collection
Subject:	Depressions -- 1929. Nineteen twenties. Prohibition -- United States -- History. Prohibition -- United States. Depressions. Nineteen twenties. Prohibition. United States -- History. United States. Documentary films. History. Documentary films.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13623607

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Other authors / contributors:	Burns, Ken, 1953- director. Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Notes:	Title from resource description page (viewed Jun. 17, 2014). Cinematography, Buddy Squires with Allen Moore and Stephen McCarthy ; edited by Tricia Reidy, Erick Ewers and Ryan Gifford. Narrated by Peter Coyote with Patricia Clarkson, Blythe Danner, Paul Giamatti, Tom Hanks, John Lithgow and Oliver Platt. This edition in English.
Summary:	This episode explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight.
Other form:	Original

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