| Genre: | Documentary |
| Director: | Ken Burns Lynn Novick |
| Narrated: | Peter Coyote |
| Composer: | Wynton Marsalis |
| Country: | United States |
| Num Episodes: | 3 |
| Producer: | Sarah Botstein Lynn Novick Ken Burns |
| Editor: | Tricia Reidy Erik Ewers Ryan Gifford |
| Cinematography: | Buddy Squires with: Allen Moore Stephen McCarthy |
| Runtime: | 5 1/2 hours |
| Company: | Florentine Films WETA Prohibition Film Project National Endowment for the Humanities |
Prohibition is a 2011 American television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick with narration by Peter Coyote. The series originally aired on PBS between October 2, 2011 and October 4, 2011.[1] It was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It draws heavily from the 2010 book Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent.[2]
Prohibition describes how the consumption and effect of alcoholic beverages in the United States were connected to many different cultural forces including immigration, women's suffrage, and the income tax. Eventually the Temperance movement led to the passing of Prohibition, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Widespread defiance of the law, uneven and unpopular enforcement, and violent crime associated with the illegal trade in alcohol caused increasing dissatisfaction with the amendment, eventually leading to its repeal 13 years later.