In remembrance of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the National Churchill Museum and Westminster College Campus Activities Board present a nationally recognized documentary, "Rockin the Wall."
This film is a compelling story of rock and roll's part in bringing down the Berlin Wall and smashing the Iron Curtain. Told from the perspective of rockers who played at the time, on both sides of the Wall, and from survivors of the communist regimes who recalled the lifeline that rock music provided them, "Rockin' the Wall" features new interviews and several original songs written exclusively for the film.
The message that emerges is that music is a force of liberation. Behind the Iron Curtain, where the mere act of expressing one's individuality constituted a potential act of revolution, music provided the key thread upon which the anti-communist struggle gained ground.
Rated G, the film screening is free and open to the community. A brief panel discussion and Q & A will follow the film.
“Leave the past to history especially as I propose to write that history myself.”
