''Marcus Garland'' is a 1925

race film The race film or race movie was a genre of film produced in the United States between about 1915 and the early 1950s, consisting of films produced for black audiences, and featuring black casts. Approximately five hundred race films were produce ...

directed, written, produced and distributed by

Oscar Micheaux Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (; January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled ...

. The film offers a harsh parody on the rise and fall of

Marcus Garvey Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr. (17 August 188710 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African ...

, the

Black nationalist Black nationalism is a type of racial nationalism or pan-nationalism which espouses the belief that black people are a race (human categorization), race, and which seeks to develop and maintain a black racial and national identity. Black natio ...

and

pan-Africanist Pan-Africanism is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all Indigenous and diaspora peoples of African ancestry. Based on a common goal dating back to the Atlantic slave trade, the movement exte ...

leader. Few details on the film’s production survive, and some sources place its release in 1928. No print of the film is known to exist and it is presumed to be a

lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o ...

.Gevinson, Alan
''Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960''
University of California Press, 1997, , p. 639.

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''Marcus Garland'' at Internet Movie Database
1925 films Lost American drama films Films directed by Oscar Micheaux American black-and-white films American silent feature films Race films 1925 drama films Silent American drama films 1925 lost films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub