The Concert for Bangladesh

Name: The Concert for Bangladesh
Director: Saul Swimmer
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1972-03-23

Film19721h 43mReleased

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Director: Saul Swimmer
Language: English
Released: 1972-03-23
Runtime: 1h 43m

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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.