Leo Hurwitz
Directing
1909-06-23 · New York, New York
Son of a Russian anarchist, Leo Hurwitz graduated Harvard summa cum laude and became a leader in New York’s left wing film movement from the early 1930s on. In the Workers’ Film and Photo League, NYKino, and Frontier Films, Hurwitz remained the quintessential politically committed cameraman, editor, writer, and director.
Filmography
Discovery in a Painting
2016 · Movie
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
1989 · Movie
Message to Man
1989 · Movie
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
1980 · Movie
Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
1980 · Movie
This Island
1970 · Movie
Light and the City
1970 · Movie
Discovery in a Landscape
1970 · Movie
For Life, Against the War
1967 · Movie
In Search of Hart Crane
1966 · Movie
The Sun and Richard Lippold
1966 · Movie
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964 · Movie
Here at the Water's Edge
1961 · Movie
The Museum and the Fury
1956 · Movie
Dancing James Berry
1955 · Movie
The Young Fighter
1953 · Movie
Emergency Ward
1952 · Movie
America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers
1951 · Movie
Strange Victory
1948 · Movie
Tomorrow We Fly
1943 · Movie
Native Land
1942 · Movie
Heart of Spain
1937 · Movie
The Plow That Broke the Plains
1936 · Movie
America Today
1934 · Movie
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
1933 · Movie
Bonus March 1932
1932 · Movie
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
1932 · Movie
The National Hunger March 1931
1932 · Movie