Free to Rock (2017)

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

Released May 1, 2017 61 min None+

Genres: Documentary, History, Music

Keywords: imdb.cold-war-era, imdb.fall-of-soviet-union, imdb.communism-vs-capitalism, imdb.fall-of-communism, imdb.ideology, imdb.russian-occupation-of-czechoslovakia, imdb.estonia + 19 more, imdb.totalitarian-regime, imdb.iron-curtain, imdb.foreign-policy, imdb.sound-of-freedom, imdb.socialism, imdb.freedom, imdb.heavy-metal, imdb.capitalism, imdb.rock-concert, imdb.east-berlin, imdb.latvia, imdb.lithuania, imdb.rock-n-roll, imdb.soviet-union, imdb.cold-war, imdb.communism, imdb.berlin-wall, imdb.rock-history, imdb.soft-power