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From moonshiners to gangsters to the birth of NASCAR, explore the rise and fall of America's "noble experiment."
TV-PG
Season 1
9 episodes
  • 1. Secret Sin City

    1. Secret Sin City

    Welcome to Las Vegas, America's Sin City, where casinos have made security their highest priority. Host Don Wildman uncovers underground vaults, secret surveillance nerve centers, and how the latest technology beats the cheaters.
    Welcome to Las Vegas, America's Sin City, where casinos have made security their highest priority. Host Don Wildman uncovers underground vaults, secret surveillance nerve centers, and how the latest technology beats the cheaters.
    TV-PG
    43min
    Nov 15, 2008
  • 2. Prohibition

    2. Prohibition

    Prohibition was one of the most outlandish periods in American history. Henry Rollins reveals just how strange it got. From Capone's family secret to the crazy and sinister things our government did to get Americans to stop drinking.
    Prohibition was one of the most outlandish periods in American history. Henry Rollins reveals just how strange it got. From Capone's family secret to the crazy and sinister things our government did to get Americans to stop drinking.
    TV-PG
    43min
    Oct 2, 2011
  • 3. Breweries

    3. Breweries

    From Pilgrim brewmasters to today's monolithic corporations, learn more about our country's alcoholic history and how social experiments like the Temperance Movement and Prohibition influence sobriety today.
    From Pilgrim brewmasters to today's monolithic corporations, learn more about our country's alcoholic history and how social experiments like the Temperance Movement and Prohibition influence sobriety today.
    TV-G
    47min
    Oct 14, 1997
  • 4. Al Capone's Secret City

    4. Al Capone's Secret City

    Travel back to a time of unimaginable wealth and ruthless mobsters in 1920s Chicago with evidence from excavations, scientific studies, and historical documents.
    Travel back to a time of unimaginable wealth and ruthless mobsters in 1920s Chicago with evidence from excavations, scientific studies, and historical documents.
    TV-PG
    44min
    Oct 2, 2007
  • 5. Rumrunners, Moonshiners And Bootleggers

    5. Rumrunners, Moonshiners And Bootleggers

    Prohibition turned fishermen into rumrunners and two-bit gangsters into millionaires. And moonshine haulers in their souped-up cars helped create NASCAR. Explore the tale of our nation's love-hate relationship with illegal alcohol.
    Prohibition turned fishermen into rumrunners and two-bit gangsters into millionaires. And moonshine haulers in their souped-up cars helped create NASCAR. Explore the tale of our nation's love-hate relationship with illegal alcohol.
    TV-PG
    1 h 30 min
    Dec 8, 2002
  • 6. Underground Bootleggers

    6. Underground Bootleggers

    100 years ago, Portland, Oregon was considered the most dangerous port in the world. Join host Don Wildman as he ventures beneath modern Portland into a nefarious world of fight clubs, slave tunnels, and gambling dens.
    100 years ago, Portland, Oregon was considered the most dangerous port in the world. Join host Don Wildman as he ventures beneath modern Portland into a nefarious world of fight clubs, slave tunnels, and gambling dens.
    TV-PG
    43min
    Jul 22, 2007
  • 7. Surviving The Early Days Of Nascar

    7. Surviving The Early Days Of Nascar

    Roger Daltrey buckles up and heads to Georgia's dirt tracks and super-speedways for a road trip through the unlikely evolution of NASCAR, America's top spectator sport.
    Roger Daltrey buckles up and heads to Georgia's dirt tracks and super-speedways for a road trip through the unlikely evolution of NASCAR, America's top spectator sport.
    TV-PG
    21min
    Nov 22, 2003
  • 8. The Enforcers: ATF

    8. The Enforcers: ATF

    Interviews with agents and historians and dramatic footage and photographs chart the history of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, charged with enforcing laws from Prohibition through current gun control legislation.
    Interviews with agents and historians and dramatic footage and photographs chart the history of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, charged with enforcing laws from Prohibition through current gun control legislation.
    TV-PG
    46min
    Feb 11, 2001
  • 9. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

    9. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

    Valentine's Day 1929 marks the most infamous gangster mass murder in history, when and warring mobsters Al Capone, "Bugs" Moran, and others fought for their share of the profits from illegal booze, brothels and gambling in Chicago.
    Valentine's Day 1929 marks the most infamous gangster mass murder in history, when and warring mobsters Al Capone, "Bugs" Moran, and others fought for their share of the profits from illegal booze, brothels and gambling in Chicago.
    TV-PG
    1 h 26 min
    Feb 8, 1997
  • Prohibition
    2008
    From moonshiners to gangsters to the birth of NASCAR, explore the rise and fall of America's "noble experiment."
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