Leo Hurwitz

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.

Directed

1. Native Land (1942) — Director
2. Dialogue with a Woman Departed (1980) — Director
3. Strange Victory (1948) — Director
4. The Sun and Richard Lippold (1966) — Director
5. Tomorrow We Fly (1943) — Director
6. The National Hunger March 1931 (1932) — Director
7. This Island (1970) — Director
8. For Life, Against the War (1967) — Director
9. Bonus March 1932 (1932) — Director
10. Discovery in a Landscape (1970) — Director
11. Discovery in a Painting (2016) — Director
12. Light and the City (1970) — Director
13. Here at the Water's Edge (1961) — Director
14. Dancing James Berry (1955) — Director
15. The Young Fighter (1953) — Director
16. Emergency Ward (1952) — Director
17. The Museum and the Fury (1956) — Director
18. An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy (1964) — Director
19. Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 (1933) — Director
20. America Today (1934) — Director
21. In Search of Hart Crane (1966) — Director
22. Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre (1932) — Director
23. America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers (1951) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Dialogue with a Woman Departed (1980) — Himself
2. Strand, Under the Dark Cloth (1989) — Self
3. Discovery in a Landscape (1970) — Narrator
4. Message to Man (1989) — Self
5. Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika (1980) — Himself