Filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s latest project, Prohibition, takes on the history of the Eighteenth Amendment and social problems related to alcohol abuse in the 19th century. The three-part, ...

In 1918 and early 1919, with giddy thoughts of reforming society, voters in 36 states overwhelmingly approved the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, banning the sale and manufacture of intoxicating ...

This afternoon, I interviewed Ken Burns—the mastermind documentarian behind the Civil War series, the man who familiarized more Americans with the term “Little Bull Run” and Lincoln’s complicated ...

Tying in to the upcoming Ken Burns documentary "Prohibition," which will air on KUAT, Arizona Public Media's Tom Kleespie produced the mini-documentary "The Dry Run: Prohibition in America." The ...

Lynn Novick has been directing and producing landmark documentary films about American life and culture, history, politics, sports, art, architecture, literature, and music for more than 30 years. The ...