Leo Hurwitz
- Directing
- June 23, 1909 · New York, New York
- January 18, 1991
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Discovery in a Painting · Director, Producer
- Strand, Under the Dark Cloth · Self
- Message to Man · Self
- Dialogue with a Woman Departed · Self, Director
- Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika · Self
- Discovery in a Landscape · Narrator, Director
- Light and the City · Producer, Director
- This Island · Director
- For Life, Against the War · Director
- In Search of Hart Crane · Director, Writer
- The Sun and Richard Lippold · Writer, Producer
- An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy · Director, Writer
- Here at the Water's Edge · Director
- The Museum and the Fury · Director, Producer
- Dancing James Berry · Writer, Director
- The Young Fighter · Producer, Director
- Emergency Ward · Director, Editing
- America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers · Director
- Strange Victory · Director, Writer
- Tomorrow We Fly · Director
- Native Land · Director, Writer
- Heart of Spain · Editing
- The Plow That Broke the Plains · Cinematography
- America Today · Director
- Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 · Director, Editing
- Bonus March 1932 · Director, Cinematography
- Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre · Director
- The National Hunger March 1931 · Director