Prohibition Era Movies

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

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...

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 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...

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition.

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