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
Jim Brown
Director

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)
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