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  • Smithsonian Channel

Drinks, Crime and Prohibition

  • 2018
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • ~51m / ep
  • 1 season

A deep dive into the underbelly of the Prohibition era, which was characterized as much by jazz, illegal booze and female liberation as it was by gangsters and brutality.

Latest: Season 1 · 2018

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  1. E1. Flappers and Bootleggers

    Jun 11, 2018 · 51m

    The 18th Amendment takes effect, though enforcement proves impossible. In an era without alcohol, speakeasies boomed, corruption infiltrated politics, and gangsters grew in power and notoriety

  2. E2. Gangsters and G-Men

    Jun 18, 2018 · 51m

    Gangsters and bootleggers build an underground industry capitalizing on Americans desire for booze despite the federal prohibition on alcohol. Law enforcement closes in on America's most wanted outlaw, Al Capone.

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