Watch Boardwalk Empire - Pilot

Description: On the eve of Prohibition in 1920, Nucky Thompson, Atlantic City's Treasurer, condemns alcohol at a Women's Temperance League meeting. Margaret Schroeder, a pretty, pregnant housewife, notices Thompson and asks him for help in getting her abusive husband, Hans, a job. Later that evening, the duplicitous Nucky privately tells his ward bosses about the opportunity to make huge profits selling bootleg liquor. More