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Prohibition

Season 1
From moonshiners to gangsters to the birth of NASCAR, explore the rise and fall of America's "noble experiment."
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Secret Sin City
    November 15, 2008
    43min
    TV-PG
    Welcome to Las Vegas, America's Sin City, where casinos have made security their highest priority. Host Don Wildman uncovers underground vaults, secret surveillance nerve centers, and how the latest technology beats the cheaters.
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  2. S1 E2 - Prohibition
    October 2, 2011
    43min
    TV-PG
    Prohibition was one of the most outlandish periods in American history. Henry Rollins reveals just how strange it got. From Capone's family secret to the crazy and sinister things our government did to get Americans to stop drinking.
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  3. S1 E3 - Breweries
    October 14, 1997
    47min
    TV-G
    From Pilgrim brewmasters to today's monolithic corporations, learn more about our country's alcoholic history and how social experiments like the Temperance Movement and Prohibition influence sobriety today.
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  4. S1 E4 - Al Capone's Secret City
    October 2, 2007
    44min
    TV-PG
    Travel back to a time of unimaginable wealth and ruthless mobsters in 1920s Chicago with evidence from excavations, scientific studies, and historical documents.
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  5. S1 E5 - Rumrunners, Moonshiners And Bootleggers
    December 8, 2002
    1 h 30 min
    TV-PG
    Prohibition turned fishermen into rumrunners and two-bit gangsters into millionaires. And moonshine haulers in their souped-up cars helped create NASCAR. Explore the tale of our nation's love-hate relationship with illegal alcohol.
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  6. S1 E6 - Underground Bootleggers
    July 22, 2007
    43min
    TV-PG
    100 years ago, Portland, Oregon was considered the most dangerous port in the world. Join host Don Wildman as he ventures beneath modern Portland into a nefarious world of fight clubs, slave tunnels, and gambling dens.
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  7. S1 E7 - Surviving The Early Days Of Nascar
    November 22, 2003
    21min
    TV-PG
    Roger Daltrey buckles up and heads to Georgia's dirt tracks and super-speedways for a road trip through the unlikely evolution of NASCAR, America's top spectator sport.
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  8. S1 E8 - The Enforcers: ATF
    February 11, 2001
    46min
    TV-PG
    Interviews with agents and historians and dramatic footage and photographs chart the history of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, charged with enforcing laws from Prohibition through current gun control legislation.
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  9. S1 E9 - The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
    February 8, 1997
    1 h 26 min
    TV-PG
    Valentine's Day 1929 marks the most infamous gangster mass murder in history, when and warring mobsters Al Capone, "Bugs" Moran, and others fought for their share of the profits from illegal booze, brothels and gambling in Chicago.
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