Prohibition Era Movies

A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman...

A gilded saloon, with a fancy bar, forms the background. A nobby bartender with white coat and apron is dispensing drinks to customers. Behind him...

The action takes place in a gum factory. By a peculiar accident, a bootlegger attempting to avoid the keen eye of an officer of the law, holds a...

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

The scene opens in the bedroom of Mr. Nation, husband of the famous Carrie Nation, the “Kansas Saloon Smasher”. Mr. Nation suddenly...

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

Several prohibition agents display cans and bottles of seized liquor for the camera. They are then shown dumping the goods at a junk yard.

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

People give their opinion to the report on the unpopular Dry Law.

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition.