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 · Editor · Writer · Producer · 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) - Cinematography · DirectorDancing James Berry (1955) - Writer · DirectorLight and the City (1970) - Producer · DirectorDiscovery in a Painting (2016) - Producer · Editor · DirectorThe 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) - Editor · Director · CinematographyAmerica Today (1934) - DirectorIn Search of Hart Crane (1966) - Director · Producer · WriterDetroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre (1932) - Director