Leo Hurwitz
Born
23 June 1909 (116)
Place of Birth
New York, New York
Biography
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 (26)
Discovery in a Painting
2016
🎬 Director
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
1989
Message to Man
1989
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
1980
Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
1980
Discovery in a Landscape
1970
Light and the City
1970
🎬 Director
This Island
1970
For Life, Against the War
1967
In Search of Hart Crane
1966
🎬 Director
The Sun and Richard Lippold
1966
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964
🎬 Director
Here at the Water's Edge
1961
🎬 Director
The Museum and the Fury
1956
🎬 Director
Dancing James Berry
1955
🎬 Director
The Young Fighter
1953
🎬 Director
Emergency Ward
1952
🎬 Director
Strange Victory
1948
Tomorrow We Fly
1943
Native Land
1942
America Today
1934
🎬 Director
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
1933
🎬 Director
Bonus March 1932
1932
🎬 Director
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
1932
🎬 DirectorNational Hunger March 1931
1932
🎬 Director
The National Hunger March 1931
1932