Prohibition Era Movies

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...

A prohibition-themed gangster thriller, set in the 1930s in the United States. Following a failed heist, Sam's gang takes refuge in a small isolated...

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition.