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Free to Rock (2017)

Directed by Jim Brown

Overview

Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it and to crush what they perceived was a contamination of their youth. Over the next thirty years, thousands of underground bands and millions of young fans who yearned for Western values helped fuel the nonvio- lent implosion of the Soviet regime. FREE TO ROCK features Presidents, diplomats, spies and rock stars from the West, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who reveal how Rock & Roll music was a contributing factor in ending the Cold

Length 61 minutes

Actors

Kiefer Sutherland | Jimmy Carter | Mikhail Gorbachev | Billy Joel | Elvis Presley | Mike Love | George Harrison | John Lennon | Ringo Starr | Paul McCartney