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 of Leo Hurwitz

• Discovery in a Painting (2016)
• Dialogue with a Woman Departed (1980)
• Discovery in a Landscape (1970)
• Light and the City (1970)
• This Island (1970)
• For Life, Against the War (1967)
• The Sun and Richard Lippold (1966)
• In Search of Hart Crane (1966)
• An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy (1964)
• Here at the Water's Edge (1961)
• The Museum and the Fury (1956)
• Dancing James Berry (1955)
• The Young Fighter (1953)
• Emergency Ward (1952)
• America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers (1951)
• Strange Victory (1948)
• Tomorrow We Fly (1943)
• Native Land (1942)
• Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 (1933)
• Bonus March 1932 (1932)
• The National Hunger March 1931 (1932)
• Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre (1932)