Directing
Leo Hurwitz
1909 · New York, New York
28 films
Bio
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
Director
America Today
Director
This Island
Director
Native Land
Director
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
Director
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
Director
Emergency Ward
Director
America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers
Director
Discovery in a Painting
Director
Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
Himself
The Sun and Richard Lippold
Writer
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
Director