Free to Rock (2017): Cast

Rock & Roll music resonated across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, defying Communist efforts to ban it and suppress its influence on youth. For three decades, underground bands and devoted fans craving Western ideals helped contribute to the nonviolent collapse of the Soviet regime. Featuring interviews with presidents, diplomats, spies, and musicians from both East and West, the documentary explores how rock music became a powerful force in ending the Cold War.

• JB Director Jim Brown

• Paul McCartney as themselves
• John Lennon as themselves
• Ringo Starr as themselves
• George Harrison as themselves

• Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives 2019
• Billy Joel: A Matter of Trust - The Bridge to Russia 2014
• Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin’ 1984
• The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time 1982

Also known as

• Quand le rock dérangeait le Kremlin