Film

Free to Rock

2017 · 1h 1m · Documentary · History · Music

IMDb

7.3

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

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)

• Jim BrownDirector

Release date

May 1, 2017

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 1m

Budget

$1,100,000

Genres

Documentary, History, Music