How Booze Built America

Starting with the Pilgrims' emergency beer run, Mike Rowe goes on the ultimate bar crawl to show how alcohol shaped America’s colonial life, caused the Boston Tea Party and played a major role in leading to the Revolutionary War.

Mike Rowe explores how alcohol helped push the US westward, where mountain men and Johnny Appleseed paved the way for liquored-up cowboys to shoot each other at the OK Corral.

Mike Rowe shows how liquor helped progress the Space Race, leading to the moon landing. Plus, Prohibition leads to bootlegging and inspires a national pastime, and crime gets organized, thanks to the US government and alcohol.