Leo Hurwitz
Directing · Director · Cinematography · Writer
Born Jun 23, 1909 · New York, New York
Active 1932–1991
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.
Filmography
Dialogue with a Woman Departed (1980) — Director · Writer · Producer · Editor · Director of PhotographyNative Land (1942) — Director · Writer · EditorHeart of Spain (1937) — EditorThe Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) — Director of PhotographyTomorrow We Fly (1943) — DirectorStrange Victory (1948) — Director · WriterThe Sun and Richard Lippold (1966) — Writer · Producer · DirectorThis Island (1970) — DirectorThe National Hunger March 1931 (1932) — DirectorFor Life, Against the War (1967) — DirectorDiscovery in a Landscape (1970) — Narrator · Director · ProducerBonus March 1932 (1932) — Director · CinematographyDancing James Berry (1955) — Writer · DirectorLight and the City (1970) — Producer · DirectorDiscovery in a Painting (2016) — Director · Producer · EditorThe Young Fighter (1953) — Producer · DirectorHere at the Water's Edge (1961) — DirectorEmergency Ward (1952) — Director · EditorThe Museum and the Fury (1956) — Director · Producer · Writer · EditorAn Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy (1964) — Director · Writer · Producer · EditorHunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 (1933) — Director · Editor · CinematographyAmerica Today (1934) — DirectorDetroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre (1932) — DirectorIn Search of Hart Crane (1966) — Director · Writer · Producer