Leo Hurwitz
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.
Known For
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
Strange Victory
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers
This Island
Native Land
The Plow That Broke the Plains
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
America Today
Dancing James Berry
The National Hunger March 1931
Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
For Life, Against the War
The Museum and the Fury
In Search of Hart Crane
The Sun and Richard Lippold
Heart of Spain