The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America

  • Documentary
  • Drama
6/12/2022
83

Storyline

Divulges surprising origin stories of the American alcohol, gambling, sex, and tobacco industries and the ambitiously notorious entrepreneurs who built some of history's biggest fortunes on the nation's cravings.

Director:
Natasha Kermani
Writer:
Brian Burstein
  • reenactment
  • history

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Cast

  • James M. Reilly
    August Busch
  • Delbert Hunt
    Self - Narrator
  • Zach Meiser
    Buck Duke
  • Bart Elliott
    Julius Schmid
  • Barbara Hahn
    Self - Author of Making Tobacco Bright
  • Sarah Milov
    Self - Author of The Cigarette a Political History
  • Garrett Oliver
    Self - Editor of The Oxford Companion of Beer
  • Colin Spoelman
    Self - Master Distiller / Whiskey Historian
  • Richard Zacks
    Self - Author of Island of Vice
  • Norman Chad
    Self - Sportswriter Washington Post
  • Carey Latimore
    Self - Associate Prof. of History
  • Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela
    Self - Associate Prof. of History
  • Jesse Dupree
    Self - Entrepreneur
  • Maureen Ogle
    Self - Author of Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer
  • Samara B. Davis
    Fouder Black Bourbon Society

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