Free to Rock

Release Date: 2017-05-01

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

Rating: 6.4 / 10

Cast

Kiefer Sutherland

as Narrator (voice)

Jimmy Carter

as Self

Mikhail Gorbachev

as Self

Billy Joel

as Self

Elvis Presley

as Self (archive footage)