Torrent Ken Burns Prohibition4/14/2023 ![]() Social mores in place for a century were obliterated. Thugs became celebrities, responsible authority was rendered impotent. ![]() But the enshrining of a faith-driven moral code in the Constitution paradoxically caused millions of Americans to rethink their definition of morality. 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. ![]() Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. 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.
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