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.

• DirectorSaul Swimmer
• Release23 March 1972
• Genre
  Music / Documentary
• Duration1h 43m
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  7.9
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• Productions

  Apple Corps, 20th Century Fox, U.S. Committee for UNICEF