Directing

Leo Hurwitz

Born June 23, 1909 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.

Leo Hurwitz

Biography

Directed Films

Discovery in a Painting

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

Discovery in a Landscape

Light and the City

This Island

For Life, Against the War

In Search of Hart Crane

The Sun and Richard Lippold

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

Here at the Water's Edge

The Museum and the Fury

Dancing James Berry

The Young Fighter

Emergency Ward

America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers

Strange Victory

Tomorrow We Fly

Native Land

Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932

Bonus March 1932

Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre

The National Hunger March 1931

Also Appeared In

Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

Message to Man

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

Discovery in a Landscape