Free to Rock
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
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)
Ringo Starr
Self - The Beatles (archive footage)
Paul McCartney
Self - The Beatles (archive footage)