Movies: Prohibition era
- 1930
More Bad News for the Thirsty (1930)
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Made during Prohibition and consists of a group of Federal agents destroying a cache of liquor....
- 1985
Izzy & Moe (1985)
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The adventures of two retired vaudeville performers who become two of the best prohibition agents in the 1920's....
- 2013
Black Cat Whiskey (2013)
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In a small rural town hit hard by the Depression, Katie Connors resides in a middle-class home with her bootlegging husband Melvin. When the opportunity arises to bump him off without getting her hands dirty, she takes a chance she may never get agai...
- 2016
Sex, Maracas & Chihuahuas (2016)
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A joyful tale filled with music. The rise of radio. The jazz big bands. The legendary clubs and ballrooms. The soundtracks of the great musical films and TV shows. Sex and romance, gangsters, luxury cars and palm trees. From Barcelona to New York, wi...
- 1923
Capital Stirred by Biggest Hooch Raid (1923)
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Several prohibition agents display cans and bottles of seized liquor for the camera. They are then shown dumping the goods at a junk yard....
- 1930
Loose Ankles (1930)
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A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and without scandal. Otherwise, the estate goes to the...
- 1942
The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
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The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change....
- 1990
The Lost Capone (1990)
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While Al Capone works his way up from top-dog street gang thug captain in Chicago to U.S. crime king, his brother Jimmy Capone chooses the righteous way, actually with father's blessing, leaving Illinois for small town Harmony in Nebraska, where he a...
- 1926
Behind the Scenes with the Bootleggers (1926)
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This newsreel depicts the inner-workings of a bootleggers' facility for making and distributing illegal bootleg liquor.....
- 1929
Chinatown Nights (1929)
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Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with him causes him to realize he isl in love with her...
- 2009
Redland (2009)
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As a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown....
- 1920
The Gum Riot (1920)
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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 bottle of liquor so that its contents drop into a vat in which the gum is being prepared. It is when the ...
- 2018
Dormancy (2018)
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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 ...
- 1917
Bringing Home Father (1917)
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Peter Drake meets and falls in love with Jackie Swazey, the daughter of a feisty suffragette and incipient politician. In order to impress her, he agrees to help Mrs Swazey in her campaign to become elected....
- 2016
Rum Runners (2016)
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Rum Runners is the epic story of two best friends, Vic Hanson and Don Calyer. They get caught running illegal booze across the Canadian border. This outstanding screenplay is inspired by actual events. This story promises to have you entertained, and...
- 1931
Young Donovan's Kid (1931)
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A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children....
- 1930
Good Intentions (1930)
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When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)...
- 1926
Stepping Along (1926)
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Johnny Rooney is a fast-stepping young politician and Molly Taylor is an even faster-stepping showgirl in "George White's Scandals" in a tale of New York City's theatrical and political life during prohibition and the jazz-age....
- 1931
What Price Pants (1931)
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The vaudeville comedians Smith and Dale star in a clever satire on Prohibition and all its illegal shenanigans. Charlie Dale is the greedy owner of a sweatshop pants factory, and Joe Smith is his underpaid cutter. A letter arrives for Smith, informin...
- 1901
Kansas Saloon Smashers (1901)
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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 are polished plate glass mirrors. A comical Irishman enters, sets a huge pail on the bar to be filled, ...