Leo Hurwitz
Directing
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.
As actor 5
On the crew 25
Strange Victory
1948
America Today
1934
This Island
1970
Native Land
1942
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
1932
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964
Emergency Ward
1952
America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers
1951
Discovery in a Painting
2016
The Sun and Richard Lippold
1966
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
1933
In Search of Hart Crane
1966
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
1980
Dancing James Berry
1955
Bonus March 1932
1932
The Museum and the Fury
1956
The National Hunger March 1931
1932
The Plow That Broke the Plains
1936
Here at the Water's Edge
1961
The Young Fighter
1953
For Life, Against the War
1967
Tomorrow We Fly
1943
Light and the City
1970
Heart of Spain
1937
Discovery in a Landscape
1970