Leo Hurwitz

Known For: Directing
Born: June 23, 1909
Place of Birth: New York, New York
Died: January 18, 1991

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.

Filmography

Discovery in a Painting

2016 · Director, Producer, Editor

Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

1989 · Self

Message to Man

1989 · Self

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

1980 · Himself, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

1980 · Himself

Discovery in a Landscape

1970 · Narrator, Director, Producer

Light and the City

1970 · Producer, Director

This Island

1970 · Director

For Life, Against the War

1967 · Director

In Search of Hart Crane

1966 · Director, Writer, Producer

The Sun and Richard Lippold

1966 · Writer, Producer, Director

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

1964 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor

Here at the Water's Edge

1961 · Director

The Museum and the Fury

1956 · Director, Producer, Writer, Editor

Dancing James Berry

1955 · Writer, Director

The Young Fighter

1953 · Producer, Director

Emergency Ward

1952 · Director, Editor

America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers

1951 · Director

Strange Victory

1948 · Director, Writer

Tomorrow We Fly

1943 · Director

Native Land

1942 · Director, Writer, Editor

Heart of Spain

1937 · Editor

The Plow That Broke the Plains

1936 · Director of Photography

America Today

1934 · Director

Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932

1933 · Director, Editor, Cinematography

Bonus March 1932

1932 · Director, Cinematography

Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre

1932 · Director

The National Hunger March 1931

1932 · Director

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