Behind the Iron Curtain (1984)

Genre

heavy metal music

How it feels

This is a short documentary about the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It shows the band touring and performing in Eastern Europe during the Cold War in 1984. The video includes concert footage, backstage interviews, and music videos.

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What happens

Behind the Iron Curtain is a discontinued VHS/Beta/LaserDisc/VHD video by the English band Iron Maiden. The video features footage of the band on the road in Eastern Europe in 1984, performing concerts in Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia as part of the World Slavery Tour. The title refers to the fact that the band were touring inside the Iron Curtain (countries within the Eastern Bloc of the Soviet Union); unusual given the East bloc's separation from the West due to the then-ongoing Cold War. Aside from two promotional videos from the album Powerslave, the video also contains two live tracks and interviews with band members. The video has no MPAA rating and has a running length of 30 minutes. An expanded 58 minute version of the documentary is included on disc 2 of the Live After Death DVD. This expanded version was broadcast by MTV in 1984 and was, until then, only available on several bootleg recordings. Analysis of the tracks revealed that the audio of the tracks on the original video differ from the audio of the expanded documentary on the DVD version. The video was produced and directed by Kenneth Feuerman and edited by Norman H. Strassner. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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