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Lawless: Reinventing the Gangster
- I HAVE ALWAYS wanted to make a Gangster movie. However like all genres, they need to be somehow reinvented, made fresh again. The source material came from a great book ...
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'American Digger' Turns $30 Into Thousands
- Ric Savage and crew headed to moonshine country, hoping to find some great antique items from the era of Prohibition on "American Digger" (Wed., 10 p.m. ET on Spike). In...
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Ken Burns Previews His 'Prohibition' Documentary (VIDEO)
- The phrase "single-issue campaigns, the decline of civil discourse and smear campaigns against presidential candidates" sounds like something you might hear on cable n...
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Montel Williams Cited for Pipe at Airport: TSA Should Look for Bombs Not Bongs
- Medical marijuana activist and former talk show host Montel Williams was cited for possession of a marijuana pipe at the International Airport in Milwaukee yesterday. TS...
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Ten Minutes with: Cypress Hill
- "So you wanna be a rock superstar, and live large--a big house, five cars?" Well, nobody knows best how to get there than B-Real and Sen Don of Cypress Hill. Before the ...
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Michael Shannon Channels Kim Fowley in Runaways
- No, Michael Shannon admits, he isn't old enough to remember the Runaways - which doesn't mean he was unaware of them later on. "Well, I was born in 1974, so I would have...
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Martin Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire pilot leads to series pick-up
- We've been following the progress of Boardwalk Empire here at TV Squad for awhile now. Don't take my word for it; click that link if you don't believe me. HBO was waitin...
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Moonshine and NASCAR
- On February 6 at 9 p.m., the National Geographic Channel will air Moonshine, a one-hour documentary about the history of moonshine and how the outlawed liquor led to one...
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Ken Burns is known for his epic documentaries on topics such as the Civil War and the history of baseball. In this five-and-a-half-hour documentary, Burns and co-director Lynn Novick tackle a more controversial topic, prohibition. The three-part program tells the story of the rise and the fall of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which banned the manufacturing, sale and transportation of alcohol in the United States, and the era that it encompassed. ``Prohibition'' raises questions that are as relevant in the 21st century as they were during the Prohibition era, including questions of individual rights and responsibilities and the role of government in citizens' lives. Actor Peter Coyote narrates.



