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mods: Prohibition Ken Burns: Prohibition Burns, Ken 1953- film director, film producer. Novick, Lynn film director, film producer. Botstein, Sarah 1972- film producer. Ward, Geoffrey C. screenwriter. Coyote, Peter narrator. Squires, Buddy cinematographer. Reidy, Tricia editor of moving image work. Ewers, Erik editor of moving image work. Gifford, Ryan editor of moving image work. Florentine Films production company. Kanopy (Firm) film distributor. moving image videorecording Documentary films. History. Documentary television programs. Feature films. Nonfiction television programs. Television mini-series. Educational television programs. vau 2015 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (3 video files (approximately 330 min.)) : sound, color, black and white Prohibition is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. The culmination of nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve, even to ennoble, the lives of all Americans, to protect individuals, families, and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse. Prohibition turned law-abiding citizens into criminals, made a mockery of the justice system, caused illicit drinking to seem glamorous and fun... But the enshrining of a faith-driven moral code in the Constitution paradoxically caused millions of Americans to rethink their definition of morality. Thugs became celebrities, responsible authority was rendered impotent. Social mores in place for a century were obliterated. Especially among the young, and most especially among young women, liquor consumption rocketed, propelling the rest of the culture with it: skirts shortened. Music heated up. America's Sweetheart morphed into The Vamp. Prohibition turned law-abiding citizens into criminals, made a mockery of the justice system, caused illicit drin…