Prohibition

Jealous Ben attempts to destroy the engagement of his alcoholic brother, Dick, to the teetotaler Hattie by repeatedly sabotaging Dick's sobriety and even attempting physical harm. Despite Ben's numerous, escalating inter

Michigan Prohibition

This film is and educational and entertaining retrospective on Prohibition in Michigan. Featuring author Patti Smith and brewer Chris Ward.

Prohibition for Love

Katya Solntseva is suspected of murdering her own husband, a successful businessman. There is only one person who is confident in the accused’s innocence — Katya’s friend, Lidia. She is desperately looking for ways to sa

Prohibition Opens the Floodgates

Short documentary about prohibition and gangsters and how it affected the movies of the day.

A Prohibition Monkey

The town of Beer Bottle Bend is so tough that the babies chew tobacco. It is run in a high, wide, and handsome manner by the owner of Riley's Saloon. There is a little church in the town built in haste many years ago but

Memories of Prohibition

Routine: The Prohibition

It's business as usual for the mutant denizens of a dystopia not entirely unlike our own in this beguiling stop-motion fantasia.

A Day Without Prohibition

High school girls on the threshold of adulthood decide to defy the state ban on dancing by organizing secret graduation dances in wartime Helsinki in 1944. Before best friends Elvi and Irja take their biggest step yet in

Prohibition In Japan: Female Trafficking

Pinku from 1977.

Prohibition Newsreel No. 7

Celebrating the repeal of Prohibition from sea to shining sea. Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American Film Archives boxed set.

Prohibition Newsreel No. 1

G-men uncover a cache of smuggled liquor, confiscate it, and destroy it on a riverbank. Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American Film Archives boxed set.

Prohibition Newsreel No. 4

"Hoover Board's Dry Law Report Stuns Nation!" This one is just department head G.W. Wickersham delivering some highlights. Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American Film Archives boxed set.

Prohibition Newsreel No. 5

Responses to G.W. Wickersham's comments in Newsreel No. 4. They are less than enthusiastic. Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American Film Archives boxed set.

Prohibition Newsreel No. 2

We start with a demonstration of the bootleg bottling process before the liquor bottles are smashed into barrels by law enforcement. Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American Film Archives boxed set.

Prohibition Newsreel No. 3

This one (given the heading "more bad news for the thirsty") continues the series' tradition, this time showing a Virginia seizure and destruction. Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American Film Archiv

Prohibition Newsreel No. 6

Dry Agents Still on the Job! Even New York at Christmastime isn't safe from the G-Men! Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American Film Archives boxed set.

Prohibition Newsreel No. 8

Repeal Brings Wet Flood! Celebrating repeal in that wettest of towns, New Orleans, LA. Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American Film Archives boxed set.

Prohibition and the South Florida Connection

A film about the prominent role South Florida, and its Caribbean neighbors played in the transportation of illegal booze into the U.S. during this infamous era. Depicting the prohibition era experience from Palm Beach to

La prohibition américaine, une aubaine française

A History of The War on Drugs, from Prohibition to Gold Rush

Why are white men poised to get rich doing the same thing African-Americans have been going to prison for?