![The Concert for Bangladesh](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/y2y33C4rbkaCpybdQ8wSSAt0ids.jpg)
Plot
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.
Writer | N/A |
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Director | Saul Swimmer |
Actor | George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton |
Country | United Kingdom |
Production | Apple Corps |