Leo Hurwitz
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- June 23, 1909
- Place of birth
- New York, New York
- Died
- January 18, 1991
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.
Movies with Leo Hurwitz
- Dialogue with a Woman Departed 1980 · ★ 7.9
- Strand, Under the Dark Cloth 1989 · ★ 6.6
- Discovery in a Landscape 1970
- Message to Man 1989
- Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika 1980
Movies directed by Leo Hurwitz
- Native Land 1942 · ★ 6.3
- Dialogue with a Woman Departed 1980 · ★ 7.9
- Strange Victory 1948 · ★ 6.8
- The Sun and Richard Lippold 1966 · ★ 6.4
- Tomorrow We Fly 1943 · ★ 7.5
- The National Hunger March 1931 1932 · ★ 6.5
- This Island 1970 · ★ 7.0
- For Life, Against the War 1967 · ★ 6.0
- Bonus March 1932 1932
- Discovery in a Landscape 1970
- Discovery in a Painting 2016
- Light and the City 1970
- Here at the Water's Edge 1961
- Dancing James Berry 1955
- Emergency Ward 1952
- The Young Fighter 1953
- The Museum and the Fury 1956
- An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy 1964
- Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 1933
- America Today 1934
- Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre 1932
- In Search of Hart Crane 1966
- America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers 1951