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.

Cast

Discovery in a Landscape

Narrator

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

Himself

Message to Man

Himself

Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

Self

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

Himself

Crew

Native Land

Director, Writer, Editor

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

Director, Producer, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography

Strange Victory

Director, Writer

Bonus March 1932

Director, Cinematography

National Hunger March 1931

Director

The National Hunger March 1931

Director

Dancing James Berry

Writer, Director

Light and the City

Producer, Director

Discovery in a Landscape

Producer, Director

Discovery in a Painting

Producer, Director, Editor

The Sun and Richard Lippold

Writer, Producer, Director

The Young Fighter

Producer, Director

Heart of Spain

Editor

This Island

Director

For Life, Against the War

Director

Here at the Water's Edge

Director

Emergency Ward

Director, Editor

The Museum and the Fury

Director, Producer

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

Director

The Plow That Broke the Plains

Director of Photography

Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932

Director, Editor, Cinematography

America Today

Director

Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre

Director

In Search of Hart Crane

Writer, Producer, Director