The American Experience - Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Visionary yet enigmatic, brilliant yet manipulative, Marcus Garvey is one of the most controversial figures in American history.  Both a powerful orator and a pompous autocrat, Garvey inspired the loyalty of millions of African-Americans while infuriating many black leaders.  He was a strong advocate of black self-help, yet was willing to collaborate with the Ku Klux Klan.  He inspired African-Americans to support his economic enterprises, then lost their hard-earned money through mismanagement.  This film uses a wealth of archival footage, photographs and documents to uncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant who between 1916 and 1921 built what was the largest black mass movement in world history.