Free to Rock

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 BrownDirector

• Kiefer SutherlandNarrator (voice)
• Jimmy CarterSelf
• Mikhail GorbachevSelf
• Billy JoelSelf
• Elvis PresleySelf (archive footage)
• Mike LoveHimself
• George HarrisonSelf - The Beatles (archive footage)
• John LennonSelf - The Beatles (archive footage)
• Ringo StarrSelf - The Beatles (archive footage)
• Paul McCartneySelf - The Beatles (archive footage)