Prohibition: America's War on Alcohol 1920-1933

Fourteen years when the United States tried to legislate away alcohol and instead created organised crime. The Volstead Act and the Anti-Saloon League that lobbied it into being. Al Capone's Chicago and Lucky Luciano's New York. The speakeasies, the bathtub gin, the Coast Guard chases. The St Valentine's Day Massacre. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables. Bootleggers who became FDR's donors. The Great Depression finishing what the flappers started. Repeal in December 1933. — a daily series with new episodes every day.