1. The Rebellion
45min
16th Dec 2020
Latin America's rock movement was sparked by Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba" and the Beatles but found its own voice in youth and resistance to dictatorship.
Episodes
Cast
Season 1
2. The Repression
52min
16th Dec 2020
When the band Peace and Love began chanting, "We got the power!" at the first rock festival in Mexico in 1971, the government responded by banning rock.
3. Music in Color
48min
16th Dec 2020
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.
4. Rock in Our Own Language
46min
16th Dec 2020
Argentina's Soda Stereo was the first all-hemispheric hitmakers, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.
5. One Continent
55min
16th Dec 2020
Mexico's Café Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same with Colombian beats and sounds.
6. A New Era
51min
16th Dec 2020
Anger about social injustice infuses Latin American rock after the Zapatista uprising, paving the way for reggaeton and rap and new female rockers.
First air date
16th Dec 2020
Last air date
16th Dec 2020
Status
Ended
Type
Miniseries
Original language
es