Director
Leo Hurwitz
117 years · New York, New York · 27 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 27
Discovery in a Painting
2016 · Producer, Editor
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
1989 · Self
On Kanopy
Message to Man
1989 · Self
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
1980 · Himself, Director
Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
1980 · Himself
Discovery in a Landscape
1970 · Narrator, Director
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, Producer
The Sun and Richard Lippold
1966 · Writer, Producer
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964 · Director, Writer
Here at the Water's Edge
1961 · Director
The Museum and the Fury
1956 · Director, Producer
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
On OVID
Tomorrow We Fly
1943 · Director
Native Land
1942 · Director, Writer
Heart of Spain
1937 · Editor
The Plow That Broke the Plains
1936 · Cinematography
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
1933 · Editor, Director