Free to Rock

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

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Documentary,

History,

Music

Duration:

61 minutes

Year:

2017

Director:

Jim Brown

Cast:

Narrator (voice)

Self

Self

Self

Self (archive footage)

Crew:

Director