Director
Leo Hurwitz
1909New York, New York21 Films
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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Discovery in a Painting
2016
7.8
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
1980
Discovery in a Landscape
1970
Light and the City
1970
7.0
This Island
1970
6.0
For Life, Against the War
1967
In Search of Hart Crane
1966
6.4
The Sun and Richard Lippold
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
6.0
Strange Victory
1948
7.0
Tomorrow We Fly
1943
6.2
Native Land
1942
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
1933
Bonus March 1932
1932
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
1932
6.5