Leo Hurwitz

Leo Hurwitz

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.

Known For

Directing

Born

June 23, 1909

Place of Birth

New York, New York

Died

January 18, 1991 age 81

Discovery in a Landscape

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

Message to Man

Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

Native Land

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

Strange Victory

National Hunger March 1931

Bonus March 1932

The National Hunger March 1931

Bonus March 1932

Dancing James Berry

Discovery in a Landscape

Light and the City

Discovery in a Painting

Discovery in a Painting

Discovery in a Painting

Discovery in a Landscape

The Sun and Richard Lippold

The Sun and Richard Lippold

The Young Fighter

Light and the City

The Sun and Richard Lippold

Heart of Spain

This Island

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

For Life, Against the War

Here at the Water's Edge

Strange Victory

Dancing James Berry

The Young Fighter

Emergency Ward

Emergency Ward

The Museum and the Fury

The Museum and the Fury

An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

The Plow That Broke the Plains

Native Land

Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932

Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932

Native Land

Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932

America Today

In Search of Hart Crane

Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre

In Search of Hart Crane

In Search of Hart Crane

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