How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies
Those behind Prohibition saw a ban on the sale of 'intoxicating liquors' as a crusade against a moral evil. But the big winners were Al Capone and the mob, writes Dominic Sandbrook
Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth'
Nick Cave, who wrote the script to Lawless, tells Sean O'Hagan how the film brings the violence and lyricism of the book on which it was based to the screen and merges the genres of the urban gangster and rural western
Matt Bondurant: 'We discovered Grandpa Jack had a dark history'
Jessica Chastain: 'In Lawless, my character Maggie is always moving forward'
Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke: the actors playing the Bondurant brothers in Lawless
