The Concert for Bangladesh

Categories: Music, Documentary
A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide.

Status: Released IMDb
Release date: 1972-03-23
Run time: 103 minute / 1:43
Director: Saul Swimmer
Website: http://www.concertforbangladesh.com/
Production Companies : Apple Corps, 20th Century Fox, U.S. Committee for UNICEF
Production Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America