Free to Rock

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

Directed by Jim Brown

Top cast

Kiefer Sutherland

Narrator (voice)

Jimmy Carter

Self

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self

Billy Joel

Self

Elvis Presley

Self (archive footage)

Mike Love

Himself

George Harrison

Self - The Beatles (archive footage)

John Lennon

Self - The Beatles (archive footage)

Ringo Starr

Self - The Beatles (archive footage)

Paul McCartney

Self - The Beatles (archive footage)

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