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Crime & Prohibition
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This episode tells the story of the media circus that surrounded notorious gangsters and other Depression-era criminals in the United States of America. This is encapsulated in the kidnapping of Ch...
This episode tells the story of the media circus that surrounded notorious gangsters and other Depression-era criminals in the United States of America. This is encapsulated in the kidnapping of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's baby - the 'crime of the century'. Includes footage of rum runners trying to outrun the US Coastguard and beat prohibition; mobster Jack 'Legs' Diamond; John Dillinger behind bars; Al Capone at the racecourse; and coverage from inside the courtroom during the Lindbergh baby murder trial of German illegal immigrant Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
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- Creator
- BBC Worldwide Ltd
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2014], c2011
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (30 min.) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn890330263
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on June 21, 2014.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Crime & Prohibition Introduction (1:30) -- America in the 1930s (1:41) -- Winds of the 1930s (2:14) -- Frivolity and Crime (2:47) -- Gangster Activities (2:16) -- Kidnapping Racquet (3:28) -- Hauptmann Arrested (2:54) -- Trial of the Century (3:21) -- Richard Hauptmann Trial (2:40) -- Hauptmann Verdict (2:05) -- Prohibition Over (2:10) -- 1930s Review (1:25) -- Credits: Crime & Prohibition: Time to Remember (0:35)