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Free to Rock (2017)
61 min | Documentary, History, Music

Free to Rock (2017)

61 min | Documentary, History, Music

FREE TO ROCK is a 60 minute documentary film directed by 4 time Emmy winning filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Ten years in the making, the film explores the soft power of Rock & Roll to affect social change behind the...See moreFREE TO ROCK is a 60 minute documentary film directed by 4 time Emmy winning filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Ten years in the making, the film explores the soft power of Rock & Roll to affect social change behind the Iron Curtain between the years 1955 and 1991, and how it contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and to ending the Cold War. Rock & Roll sounded the "chimes of freedom" in the hearts and minds of Iron Curtain youth. Inspiring its youth to demand freedom to listen, play and record rock music, to enjoy basic human rights and freedom from oppressive communist rule. The story follows the key political, musical and activist players in this real-life drama as the KGB cracked down hard with arrests, beatings, death threats and imprisonment. Thousands of underground rock bands with millions of passionate supporters inspire and fuel independence movements that eventually cause the Soviet communist system to implode without blood shed or civil war. Interviews and performance subjects include: Presidents Carter, Gorbachev and Vike-Freiberga, NATO Deputy Secretary General Vershbow, KGB General Kalugin, diplomats, historians and journalists, along with Elvis Presley, Beatles, Billy Joel, Metallica, Scorpions, Beach Boys, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and the WALL in Berlin concert; plus the Iron Curtain rockers who braved the long struggle with the Kremlin and KGB. The film is produced in collaboration with the Grammy Museum, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Stas Namin Center of Moscow, with support from the U.S. Government's National Endowment of the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, both US Government arts agencies. See less

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48 cast members

Name	Known for
Kiefer Sutherland Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	24 (2001)
Tsvety Themselves (as The Flowers) Themselves (as The Flowers) See fewer	Ne boysya, ya s toboy (1981)
Jimmy Carter Self Self See fewer	The American President (2000)
Yuri Valov Self Self See fewer	Free to Rock (2017)
Billy Joel Self Self See fewer	Oliver & Company (1988)
Andrey Makarevich Self Self See fewer	Hipsters (2008)
Mikhail Gorbachev Self Self See fewer	Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Stas Namin Self Self See fewer	The Restless Garden (1993)
Mark LeVine Self Self See fewer	Deadline (I) (2012)
Elvis Presley Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Robert Santelli Self - executive director of Grammy Museum (as Bob Santelli) Self - executive director of Grammy Museum (as Bob Santelli) See fewer	Foreigner Live at the Grammy Museum (2012)
Herman Rarebell Self Self See fewer	Hellboy (2019)
Valery Saifudinov Self Self See fewer	Free to Rock (2017)
Yuriy Shishkov Self Self See fewer	Free to Rock (2017)
Joseph Nye Jr. Self Self See fewer	Free to Rock (2017)
Vaira Vike-Freiberga Self - former president of Latvia Self - former president of Latvia See fewer	Amats Nr. 1. Valsts prezidents (2004)
Ojars Eriks Kalnins Self (as Ojars Kalnins) Self (as Ojars Kalnins) See fewer	Free to Rock (2017)
Grisha Dimant Self Self See fewer	The Money Pit (1986)
Pete Anderson Self Self See fewer	Free to Rock (2017)
The Beatles Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	The Beatles: Get Back (2021)
Boris Grebenshchikov Self Self See fewer	Assa (1987)
Dave Hess Self Self See fewer	Sid Roth's It's Supernatural (1996)
Mike Love Self Self See fewer	Cocktail (1988)
The Beach Boys Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	The Boat That Rocked (2009)
Bruce Johnston Self Self See fewer	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Dean Reed Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Sing, Cowboy, sing (1981)
Oleg Kalugin Self Self See fewer	Spycraft: The Great Game (1996)
Timothy Ryback Self - author of 'Rock around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union' Self - author of 'Rock around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union' See fewer	Geheimnisse des 'Dritten Reichs' (2011)
Vratislav Brabenec Self Self See fewer	Inventura (1981)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	2012 (I) (2009)
Jeff Hanna Self Self See fewer	God Bless the Broken Road (2018)
John McEuen Self Self See fewer	Man Outside (1987)
Elton John Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Joanna Stingray Self Self See fewer	Joanna Stingray: Feeling (1986)
Kino Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	The Fool (2014)
Alisa Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	Alisa: My vmeste (1987)
Alexander Vershbow Self - Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Self - Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia See fewer	Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? (2024)
Nick Binkley Self Self See fewer	Old Times (2019)
Ronald Reagan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Kings Row (1942)
Bruce Springsteen Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Blinded by the Light (2019)
Doc McGhee Self Self See fewer	KISS 2020 Goodbye (2020)
Scorpions Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	Knight and Day (2010)
Cyndi Lauper Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Cyndi Lauper: Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1983)
András Simonyi Self Self See fewer	A Bang-Jensen-Ügy (2009)
Mark Ross Self Self See fewer	Free to Rock (2017)
Metallica Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Robert F. Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Missiles of October (1974)
Chris Wren Self Self See fewer	Free to Rock (2017)