Rockin' the Wall | movie | 2014 | Official Trailer
Rock and roll's part in bringing down the Berlin Wall and smashing the Iron Curtain is told from the perspective of rock | dG1fYjJhSlYtekJjMTQ
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00:00Could it ever kind of dawn on you that you were part of a movement that helped bring
00:13down one of the most powerful empires in human history?
00:17What empire is that?
00:18The Soviet Union.
00:19No.
00:20Wow.
00:21Yeah, I'm sure Iron Curtain might not have come down had it not been for rock and roll.
00:34Let's go!
00:35Rock and roll is freedom.
00:36Yeah, rock and roll.
00:38Did the wall come down?
00:40I could never imagine.
00:44You can't stop people from enjoying music.
00:49Rock and roll is freedom.
00:50Rebellion.
00:51Freedom.
00:52And so you can feel in the room here, this energy coming like that.
00:56It's the truth in one power group.
00:59There's no stronger force in the world than music.
01:02Nothing.
01:03Iron Curtain has descended across the continent.
01:06Ich bin ein Zerlin.
01:12Lost against the Cold War.
01:14Rock and roll music, books about political freedom, and the Bible were all viewed by
01:20the tyrants in charge of the Soviet Union as subversive.
01:24And you know what?
01:26They were right.
01:30Everybody on the world wants to be free.
01:33It was a tumultuous time.
01:36All the musicians were doing everything they could to get out of Vietnam.
01:39We just wanted to rock.
01:41We are, we are survivors.
01:45With a lot of liberty to tell us the world can see.
01:49Solidarity pushing Poland and all that together in a youth revolution caused the whole thing
01:54to unravel.
01:55The Iron Curtain is not impenetrable.
01:57Our music was bleeding into them.
02:00The music was so incredible.
02:03Rock and roll shrank the world.
02:05Things are changing.
02:11Explosion.
02:18Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
02:21Explosion.