Drinks, Crime and Prohibition — Season 1, Episode 1: Flappers and Bootleggers
Documentary • 51 min • 1 season, 2 episodes
Episode synopsis
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
About Drinks, Crime and Prohibition
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.