The Concert for Bangladesh
- Movies
- 1972-03-23
- EN
- Released
- 2h 43m
- GB
- Music - Documentary
Production
Apple Corps, 20th Century Fox, U.S. Committee for UNICEF
Storyline
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.
