Leo Hurwitz
Directing
Born June 23, 1909 in 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
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
Self
Message to Man
Self
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Himself
Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
Himself
Discovery in a Landscape
Narrator
Light and the City
This Island
For Life, Against the War
In Search of Hart Crane
The Sun and Richard Lippold
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
Here at the Water's Edge
The Museum and the Fury
Dancing James Berry
The Young Fighter
Emergency Ward
America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers
Strange Victory
Tomorrow We Fly
Native Land
Heart of Spain
The Plow That Broke the Plains
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
Bonus March 1932
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
The National Hunger March 1931