The Concert for Bangladesh (movie)
- User score: 7.8
- Production country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Producer: Saul Swimmer
- Production companies: Apple Corps, 20th Century Fox, U.S. Committee for UNICEF
- Genre: Music, Documentary
- Release date: 3/23/1972
- Run time: 103 min.
Movie description
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.
