Leo Hurwitz

Born: 1909-06-23, New York, New York

Died: 1991-01-18

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.

Filmography

• Strange Victory (1948)
• Native Land (1942)
• This Island (1970)
• For Life, Against the War (1967)
• Emergency Ward (1952)
• Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre (1932)
• An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy (1964)
• Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika (1980)
• America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers (1951)
• The Sun and Richard Lippold (1966)
• Dialogue with a Woman Departed (1980)
• Dialogue with a Woman Departed (1980)
• In Search of Hart Crane (1966)
• Discovery in a Painting (2016)
• Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 (1933)
• The National Hunger March 1931 (1932)
• Bonus March 1932 (1932)
• Dancing James Berry (1955)
• Here at the Water's Edge (1961)
• The Museum and the Fury (1956)
• The Young Fighter (1953)
• Light and the City (1970)
• Discovery in a Landscape (1970)
• Discovery in a Landscape (1970)
• Tomorrow We Fly (1943)