The Concert for Bangladesh (1972)

ALL 03/23/1972 (en) Music, Documentary 103 Min
  • Release
    03/23/1972
  • Production
    Apple Corps, 20th Century Fox, U.S. Committee for UNICEF
  • Rotten tomato
    78%
  • Original title
    The Concert for Bangladesh
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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.

  1. Saul Swimmer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor



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The Concert for Bangladesh (1972) 103 Min

ALL 03/23/1972 (en)
Music, Documentary
  • Release 03/23/1972
  • Production
    Apple Corps, 20th Century Fox, U.S. Committee for UNICEF
  • Original title The Concert for Bangladesh
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Saul Swimmer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. George Harrison, Allen Klein

    Producer