Film and Television
- Marathon Production, a TV program production and distribution company
- Marathon (and its variants) are titles of a number of films like:
- The Marathon, a 1919 film starring Harold Lloyd
- Maratón, 1968 Czechoslovak film directed by Ivo Novák
- Marathon (1988 film), a sport-drama film directed by Terence Young
- Marathon (1992 film), a Spanish film about the Barcelona Olympics
- Marathon (2005 film), a South Korean film about an autistic marathon runner
- Marathon (2008 film), eight runners compete in a London marathon, with Toby Stephens, Parminder Nagra, and Johnny Lee Miller
- De Marathon (English: The Marathon), 2012 Dutch film
- Marathon (television), the sequential broadcast of a number of related television programs; see also telethon
- Marathon Man, a movie adapted from a same title novel starring Dustin Hoffman
- "Marathon", an episode from the tenth season of the NBC series Law & Order
- Movie marathon, viewing of multiple consecutive movies
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