Plot Synopsis

BREAK IT ALL: THE HISTORY OF ROCK IN LATIN AMERICA is a six-episode documentary series that chronicles the 50-year history of Latin American rock -- through dictatorships, disasters and dissent -- while highlighting the contributions of Soda Stereo, Cafe Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others. Netflix released the entire six-episode series on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 3:01am ET/12:01am PT:

"The Rebellion": 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.

"The Repression": 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.

"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.

"Rock in Our Own Language": Argentina's Soda Stereo were the first all-hemispheric hitmakers, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.

"One Continent": Mexico's Cafe Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same with Colombian beats and sounds.

"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.