
Miniseries (2020)
Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and dissent.
Episodes: 6
Star Cast: Gustavo Santaolalla , Rubén Albarrán , Fito Páez , Andrea Echeverri ,
Episodes List

Ep.1 The Rebellion
Air Date: 2020-12-16
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.

Ep.2 The Repression
Air Date: 2020-12-16
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.

Ep.3 Music in Color
Air Date: 2020-12-16
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.

Ep.4 Rock in Our Own Language
Air Date: 2020-12-16
Argentina's Soda Stereo was the first all-hemispheric hitmakers, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.

Ep.5 One Continent
Air Date: 2020-12-16
Mexico's Café Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same with Colombian beats and sounds.

Ep.6 A New Era
Air Date: 2020-12-16
Anger about social injustice infuses Latin American rock after the Zapatista uprising, paving the way for reggaeton and rap and new female rockers.