Leo Hurwitz
Directing · Born 1909-06-23 · age 81 at death · New York, New York
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.
Titles
The Plow That Broke the Plains
Native Land
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Strange Victory
The Sun and Richard Lippold
Heart of Spain
Tomorrow We Fly
The National Hunger March 1931
This Island
For Life, Against the War
Bonus March 1932
Dancing James Berry
Discovery in a Landscape
Light and the City
Discovery in a Painting
The Young Fighter
Here at the Water's Edge
Emergency Ward
The Museum and the Fury
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
In Search of Hart Crane
America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers