The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America

Download Infographic

The full episode-rating heatmap as a shareable image.

Landscape · Light Landscape · Dark Portrait · Light Portrait · Dark

About

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.

All Seasons

▼

Season 12022

8.010834h 16m

	Ep	Title	Rating	Yours	Votes	Runtime
▶	1	Secrets and Sins	8.0	+ 12345678910	44	85 min
▶	2	Empires Lost	7.8	+ 12345678910	31	86 min
▶	3	Sin Cities	8.1	+ 12345678910	33	85 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Delbert Hunt Narrator

James M. Reilly August Busch

April Mae Davis Stephanie St. Clair

Adam Harper Adolphus Busch

Garrett Taylor Jack Daniel

Britt Michael Gordon Leo Burnett

Dennis Brito Busch's Brewery Manager

Zach Meiser Buck Duke

Bart Elliott Julius Schmid

Samuel Dunning Lem Motlow

Similar Series

The Last Dance

★ 9.0

183K 10 2020–2020

Sports · Docuseries · Nostalgic

Queen Cleopatra

★ 1.2

88K 4 2023–2023

Royalty & aristocracy

Rise of Empires: Ottoman

★ 8.0

48K 12 2020–2022

Real history · War & military

The Beatles: Get Back

★ 8.9

38K 3 2021–2021

Music scene · Docuseries

The Vietnam War

★ 9.1

37K 10 2017–2017

War & military · Docuseries

Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

★ 7.4

25K 4 2022–2022

Docuseries · Chaotic energy

The Devil Next Door

★ 7.5

16K 5 2019–2019

Docuseries · True crime

House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths

★ 7.4

15K 3 2021–2021

True crime · Docuseries

Alexander: The Making of a God

★ 5.6

14K 6 2024–present

Real history · Period piece

Greatest Events of WWII in Colour

★ 8.6

14K 10 2019–2019

War & military · Real history

Pepsi, Where's My Jet?

★ 7.0

14K 4 2022–2022

Docuseries · Nostalgic

Ancient Aliens

★ 7.0

14K 294 2009–present

Docuseries · Long-runner