PBS American Experience
2001
90
 Min
DIRECTED BY 
Stanley Nelson

Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the WhirlWind

Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind, the first comprehensive documentary to tell the life story of this controversial leader, uses a wealth of material from the Garvey movement-written documents, film and photographs-to reveal what motivated a poor Jamaican to set up an international organization for the African diaspora, what led to his early successes, and why he died lonely and forgotten.

Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind, the first comprehensive documentary to tell the life story of this controversial leader, uses a wealth of material from the Garvey movement-written documents, film and photographs-to reveal what motivated a poor Jamaican to set up an international organization for the African diaspora, what led to his early successes, and why he died lonely and forgotten.

Among the most powerful sequences in the film are articulate, fiery interviews with the men and women whose parents joined the Garvey movement more than 80 years ago. Together they reveal how revolutionary Garvey's ideas were to a new generation of African Americans, West Indians and Africans and how he invested hundreds of thousands of black men and women with a new-found sense of racial pride.

release

January 18, 2001

RUNTIME

90
 MIN

DISTRIBUTOR

PBS American Experience

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Director

Stanley Nelson

Executive Producer

Margaret Drain

Screenwriter

Marcia Smith

Producers

Susan Mottau
Mark Samels
Maxine Walters

Associate Producer

Gwendolyn Dixon

Editor

Lewis Erskine

Archival Researcher

Sheila Maniar