Websites
Just your basic overview of the whole thing.
Prohibition was the age of gangsters, and here they are. Just don't be like them.
For your aesthetic appreciation.
Lots of people like the streamlined-yet-glamorous look of the '20s.
Movie or TV Productions
Eliot Ness and his squad of incorruptible Treasury Agents go up against gangster Al Capone. Has an incredible cast and crew, and this is where Sean "James Bond" Connery won his Oscar. Just don't look here for historical accuracy.
Prohibition gets the HBO prestige drama treatment. Not as good as some of the network's other offerings, but still worth a look. It plays fast and loose with the big parts of history, but gets a lot of the period details spot on.
You know, if you have a spare five and a half hours.
Articles and Interviews
Sure, the author thinks it was a failure, but she goes a bit further than that.
This author says it worked, and he's a professor at Harvard.
Video
The most visible of the people who benefited from Prohibition.
The How Stuff Works people talk about Prohibition.
Five most fascinating facts.
Don't worry about your computer's sound; it's supposed to be silent.
Audio
The great jazz trumpeter performs a Prohibition-era standard.
The future president (at the time) gives a speech.
This ditty was the unofficial song of the FDR campaign. You can't blame lots of folks for thinking it referred to the imminent repeal of Prohibition.
Images
The man behind Prohibition.
The Volstead Act's namesake. Check out the 'stache.
...and her hatchet. She didn't want you to drink. Really didn't.
A 1919 cartoon from Life magazine about how everyone in the U.S. would leave the country if they decided to ban other delicious stuff. That's just silly. Who would ban supersized sodas or transfats? Oh.
Apparently Prohibition cops would do anything.
People flocked to liquor stores (this one's in Detroit) on the last day before Prohibition.
Federal agents confiscate hundreds of cases of whiskey from a "rum runner" boat.
It had to go somewhere...
This is how popular Prohibition was in the late 19th century. We really hope there were cosplayers in there somewhere.
The driver tried to run from the law. Didn't work out.