Free to Rock

Free to Rock

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 1, 2017

Runtime

1h 1m

Genres

Documentary, History, Music

User Score

64%

Original Title

Free to Rock

Director

Jim Brown

Budget

$1,100,000

Description

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