A free preview screening of the mini-series will take place Friday, Sept. 2, at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia
'Boardwalk Empire' is set to return to HBO Sunday, Sept. 25, at 9pm.
ATLANTIC CITY — Esteemed filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick explore America’s greatest social experiment in their latest documentary, Prohibition, set to debut Oct. 2-4 at 8pm on PBS.
The three-part mini-series follows the rise and fall of the 18th amendment and the era that encompassed its rule.
“It is,” says Burns of the mini-series, “a sad cautionary tale of a social experiment gone wrong — with girls and guns.”
The result of 100 years of concern, the law of Prohibition, when eventually enacted, brought a tidal wave of social unrest, moral upheaval, and blatant disrespect for the law.
Burns’ documentary raises many vital and extremely relevant questions about individual rights, means and ends, and the proper role of government.
“When you impose a new law that’s so radically different, that sort of runs against the grain of what human beings have done in almost every culture for almost all of human time, you are going to create opposition to it,” Burns says in an online, sneak-peek of the filmmaking process.
"You know what's great about drama? You can make shit up."
Matchless documentarian Ken Burns captures this volatile, surreal scene in his new miniseries Prohibition, which premieres Oct. 2, 3 and 4 at 8pm on PBS. The three-part, five-and-a-half-hour film explores both the forces that produced the U.S. Constitution’s 18th Amendment and ...
“This became the major way station for liquor during Prohibition,” says Lisa Kennard, one of the Inn’s owners since April. “They’d bring it up the intracoastal, have dinner, play cards, have a few drinks, do their thing with the women, and at night they’d load the liquor into small canoes and ship it up the back bays into Atlantic City.”
They never could enforce it, not really. In Atlantic City, the ban was a boon. The Amendment went out with the next tide.
An authentic, Prohibition-era atmosphere will be replicated Saturday night, reminiscent of the time when Nucky Johnson ruled Atlantic City and Al Capone’s reign over the underworld was in its infancy. Those in attendance are encouraged to dress the part ....
In the eighth episode of this multi-part series, the distinguished panel of Atlantic City historians and authors start to discuss the wild history of sporting events in the resort — from boxing and cat boxing to indoor football and Yankees baseball.
The "Conversations & Storytelling" event, featuring a panel discussion on Atlantic City's vibrant history in relation to the new HBO series Boardwalk Empire, was held at Caesars Atlantic City on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, and was followed by a viewing party of the debut episode of the HBO drama series, based on Prohibition era Atlantic City. The event was presented by Atlantic City Weekly and the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority (ACCVA) in cooperation with the Carnegie Library Center of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey; Caesars Atlantic City and Harrah's Entertainment; the Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality & Tourism; and the Atlantic City Free Public Library. The panelists included Ralph Hunter, Pinky Kravitz, Allen "Boo" Pergament, Vicki Gold Levi, Jim Waltzer and Izzy Posner. In the fifth episode of this multi-part series, a distinguished panel of Atlantic City historians and authors continue to discuss the African-American experience with regard to helping to build Atlantic City, how important the city was for blacks in terms of jobs, entrepreneurs, and entertainment....
With Sunday’s debut of Boardwalk Empire fast approaching, let’s look back on the period during which the series takes place, specifically the year 1920, the dawn of the Prohibition era.
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