Prohibition Era Movies

Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too...

A city girl revenuer spies on illegal whiskey making in the hills.

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime...

The adventures of two retired vaudeville performers who become two of the best prohibition agents in the 1920's.

The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults is a two-hour live American television special that was broadcast in syndication on April 21, 1986, and hosted by...

The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.

A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.

In a small rural town hit hard by the Depression, Katie Connors resides in a middle-class home with her bootlegging husband Melvin. When the...

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

An Irish radical turns East Coast bootlegger during Prohibition.

A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.

Tommy Mills and Marie Thurber, sweethearts, plan to marry when Tommy sells some land he has inherited. Marie's parents favor the match, as they...

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...

When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)

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...

The action takes place in a gum factory. By a peculiar accident, a bootlegger attempting to avoid the keen eye of an officer of the law, holds a...

At Santa Monica, during 30s, two contending gangster bands claim for dominance on the city. Willing to solve permanently this situation, Johnny Bello...

Set in 1932, at the height of prohibition and the growing American eugenics movement, the state of Vermont passes a law allowing for sexual...

Made during Prohibition and consists of a group of Federal agents destroying a cache of 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.