The Concert for Bangladesh

• Rated 7.9 out of 10
• Movie
• 1972
• 1h 43m
• Music
• Documentary

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.

Director

Saul Swimmer

Starring

Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Billy Preston