Movies: Prohibition era

Set in 1932, at the height of prohibition and the growing American eugenics movement, the state of Vermont passes a law allowing for sexual sterilization of "idiots, imbeciles, feeble minded or insane persons likely to procreate." Dormancy follows a ...

Prohibition has just gone into effect, and Judge Rummy's wife eagerly throws away all of the Judge's liquor. She also plans to have a temperance lecturer use him as an example of the evils of drink. While waiting for the lecturer, Judge Rummy notices...

Made during Prohibition and consists of a group of Federal agents destroying a cache of liquor....

G.W. Wickersham, head of Commission, sums up it's findings for Metrotone....

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition....

This newsreel depicts the inner-workings of a bootleggers' facility for making and distributing illegal bootleg liquor.....