Leo Hurwitz
Directing
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.
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Known For
Strange Victory
1948 · Movie
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964 · Movie
This Island
1970 · Movie
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
1932 · Movie
Native Land
1942 · Movie
America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers
1951 · Movie
America Today
1934 · Movie
The Plow That Broke the Plains
1936 · Movie
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
1933 · Movie
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
1980 · Movie
The National Hunger March 1931
1932 · Movie
For Life, Against the War
1967 · Movie