Ken Burns’s and Lynn Novick’s engaging, entertaining and enlightening documentary about the rise and fall of the 18th Amendment debuts on Blu-ray and DVD when Ken Burns: Prohibition arrives on October 4, 2011 from PBS Home Video and Paramount Home Entertainment. We have an exclusive look at this exciting release with the clip below.
A fascinating story that goes beyond the oft-told tales of gangsters, rum runners, flappers and speakeasies to raise profound questions about the proper role of government, individual rights and responsibilities, Ken Burns: Prohibition delves deep into how a society founded on individual freedom became a nation of scofflaws and hypocrites. Told through expert interviews, vintage footage and compelling images, the five-and-a-half hour film explores how the enshrining of a faith-driven moral code in the Constitution paradoxically caused millions of Americans to rethink their definition of morality.
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Special Features:
- Bonus Scenes: In the Studio Owled, Edged, Jingled, Piffed… Kentucky Bourbon And I Caught Hell He Never Did Get Caught San Francisco Welcomes Visitors From Italy, 1921 Hoover’s Medicine Ball Cabinet An Object of Ridicule Ten Nights in a Bar Room Interview Outtakes: Saloons The Notion That Man Is Perfectable It’s Better to Know the Judge That’s Just the Way Life Was Rebels of New York Somebody Got a Pineapple Kentucky Capone Roy Olmstead Tabloid Heroes You People Were Thirsty Gangs Bad Booze Lessons
Ken Burns: Prohibition is available October 4th on Blu-ray and DVD.
