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Free to Rock

May 1, 2017 · 1h 1m
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History
Music

PLOT

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

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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)
Directed by Jim Brown

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$1,100,000
Revenue
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Country
US
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