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| 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 how the soft power of Rock & Roll affected social change behind the Iron Curtain between the years 1955 and 1991, while telling the story of how the power of the music contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and helped end the Cold War. Rock & Roll inspired teenagers behind the Iron Curtain to rebel and to demand the rights to listen, play and record rock music, and to enjoy other forms of freedom. The story follows the key FREE TO ROCK EXPLORES HOW AMERICAN ROCK & ROLL MUSIC CONTRIBUTED TO THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION AND TO ENDING THE COLD WAR IN THE LAST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY political, musical and activist players in this real-life drama as the KGB cracked down with arrests, beatings, death threats and imprisonment, while they tried to eradicate the rock virus. By 1958, the CIA directed Radio Free Europe to pump Rock & Roll across the Iron Curtain, resulting in the Kremlin erecting 2,500 radio jamming stations around the Curtain to block the music’s message and its sound of freedom. The Iron Curtain teenagers questioned why their government would prohibit the music they loved and yearned for, and then began questioning other Kremlin propaganda and communism itself. President Jimmy Carter realized that sending rock bands to the USSR would give the Soviet youth a feeling of freedom and be an effective tool of America’s USSR in 1985, he recognized that the youth wanted this music and the freedom of expression, and began instituting his Glasnost 'openness' reforms. By 1987, the Kremlin invited Western rockers like Billy Joel to perform uncensored in the USSR. And in 1989, Gorbachev allowed a joint Soviet-American heavy-metal concert, the Moscow Music Peace Festival, organized by Moscow’s Stas N
. - The social history of how western rock music spread like a virus across the Iron Curtain, becoming the symbol of freedom under the Soviet regime. And how it helped end the Cold War
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