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Free to Rock
First aired on May 1, 2017
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Genres: Documentary, History, Music

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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Kiefer Sutherland | Narrator (voice)
Jimmy Carter | Self
Mikhail Gorbachev | Self
Billy Joel | Self
Elvis Presley | Self (archive footage)
Mike Love | Himself
Featured Crew
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Jim Brown | Director