Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (2001)
Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents to uncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant, who between 1916 and 1921 built the largest black mass movement in world history. It explores Garvey’s dramatic successes and failures before his fall into obscurity. Among the film’s most powerful sequences are interviews with people who were part of the Garvey movement decades ago. These interviews communicate the appeal of Garvey’s revolutionary ideas to a generation of African Americans, and reveal how he invested hundreds and thousands of black men and women with a newfound sense of pride.
Director: Stanley Nelson
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Robert Hill as Self |
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Marcus Garvey Jr. as Self |
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Rupert Lewis as Self |
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Winston James as Self |
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Barbara Bair as Self |
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John Rousseau as Self |
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Estelle James as Self |
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Clarence Walker as Self |
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Joseph Bailey as Self |
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Mariamne Samad as Self |
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Charles Mills as Self |
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Virginia Collins as Self |
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Claudius Barnes as Self |
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Frances Warner as Self |
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Julius Garvey as Self |
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Simon Clarke as Self |
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Theodore Kornweibel as Self |
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Tony Martin as Self |
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Manning Marable as Self |
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Sidney Lamelle as Self |
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Tunde Adeleke as Self |
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Rod Bush as Self |
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Robin Kelley as Self |
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Kwaku Person-Lynn as Self |
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Sam Anderson as Self |
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Irma Watkins-Owens as Self |
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Agnes Blount as Self |
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Brother Watto as Self |
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Alma Golden as Self |
| Production | Gwendolyn Dixon | Associate Producer |
| Production | Susan Mottau | Producer |
| Directing | Stanley Nelson | Director |
| Production | Margaret Drain | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Marcia Smith | Writer |
| Production | Mark Samels | Producer |
| Production | Maxine Walters | Producer |
| Editing | Sheila Maniar | Archival Footage Research |
| Editing | Lewis Erskine | Editor |