''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 African American, black audiences, and featuring black casts. Approximately five hundred race ...

directed, written, produced and distributed by

Oscar Micheaux Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (; January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American 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 c ...

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

Marcus Garvey Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (17 August 188710 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) (commonly known a ...

, the

Black nationalist Black nationalism is a nationalist movement which seeks representation for Black people as a distinct national identity, especially in racialized, colonial and postcolonial societies. Its earliest proponents saw it as a way to advocate for ...

and

pan-Africanist Pan-Africanism is a nationalist movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous peoples and diasporas of African ancestry. Based on a common goal dating back to the Atlantic slave trade, the Trans-Sa ...

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 film, feature or short film in which the original negative or copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public archive. Films can be wholly or partially lost for a number of reasons. ...

.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