Break It All: The History of Rock in Latin America

Name: Break It All: The History of Rock in Latin America
Released: 2020-12-16T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Andrés Calamaro, Charly García, Mon Laferte

TV Show · Documentary · Music

Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and other rock bands are featured in this chronicle of 50 years of rock and roll in Latin America, through dictatorships, disasters and dissent.

2020 · 45m

Starring Andrés Calamaro, Charly García, Mon Laferte

Director Picky Talarico

EPISODE 1

The Rebellion

Latin America's rock movement is sparked by Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba" and the Beatles but finds its own voice in youth and resistance to dictatorship.
EPISODE 2

The Repression

Peace and Love band members begin chanting "We got the power!" at Mexico's first rock festival in 1971, prompting the government to ban rock and roll music.
EPISODE 3

Music in Color

After the fall of the Argentine dictatorship in 1983 and the Mexico City earthquake in 1985, rock explodes with ingenuity -- and it's all in Spanish.
EPISODE 4

Rock in Our Own Language

Argentina's Soda Stereo is the first all-hemispheric hit-making rock band, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.
EPISODE 5

One Continent

Mexico's Café Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same with Colombian beats and sounds.
EPISODE 6

A New Era

Anger about social injustice infuses Latin American rock after the Zapatista uprising, paving the way for reggaeton and rap and new female rockers.