Synopsis

​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 30 years, thousands of underground bands and millions of young fans who yearned for Western values helped fuel the nonviolent implosion of the Soviet regime.​​

Directors

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  • Jim Brown
  • Jim Brown, a producer, director, screenwriter, and cinematographer, has won the Emmy Award four times and has created many popular and critically acclaimed music documentaries over the past 40 years. He has made documentaries such as Woody Guthrie: Hard Traveling (1984), Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007), and Harry Belafonte: Sing Your Song (2012). He is currently a tenured professor at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.