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Leo Hurwitz

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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Directing

1932

[ ] National Hunger March 1931 (Director)
[ ] The National Hunger March 1931 (Director)
[ ] Bonus March 1932 (Director)
[ ] Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre (Director)

1933

[ ] Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 (Director)

1934

[ ] America Today (Director)

1942

[ ] Native Land (Director)

1943

[ ] Tomorrow We Fly (Director)

1948

[ ] Strange Victory (Director)

1952

[ ] Emergency Ward (Director)

1953

[ ] The Young Fighter (Director)

1955

[ ] Dancing James Berry (Director)

1956

[ ] The Museum and the Fury (Director)

1961

[ ] Here at the Water's Edge (Director)

1964

[ ] An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy (Director)

1966

[ ] The Sun and Richard Lippold (Director)
[ ] In Search of Hart Crane (Director)

1967

[ ] For Life, Against the War (Director)

1970

[ ] Discovery in a Landscape (Director)
[ ] Light and the City (Director)
[ ] This Island (Director)

1980

[ ] Dialogue with a Woman Departed (Director)

2016

[ ] Discovery in a Painting (Director)

Crew

1932

[ ] Bonus March 1932 (Cinematography)

1933

[ ] Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 (Cinematography)

Writing

1942

[ ] Native Land (Writer)

1948

[ ] Strange Victory (Writer)

1955

[ ] Dancing James Berry (Writer)

1956

[ ] The Museum and the Fury (Writer)

1964

[ ] An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy (Writer)

1966

[ ] The Sun and Richard Lippold (Writer)
[ ] In Search of Hart Crane (Writer)

1980

[ ] Dialogue with a Woman Departed (Writer)

Production

1953

[ ] The Young Fighter (Producer)

1956

[ ] The Museum and the Fury (Producer)

1964

[ ] An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy (Producer)

1966

[ ] The Sun and Richard Lippold (Producer)
[ ] In Search of Hart Crane (Producer)

1970

[ ] Light and the City (Producer)
[ ] Discovery in a Landscape (Producer)

1980

[ ] Dialogue with a Woman Departed (Producer)

2016

[ ] Discovery in a Painting (Producer)

Editing

1933

[ ] Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 (Editor)

1937

[ ] Heart of Spain (Editor)

1942

[ ] Native Land (Editor)

1952

[ ] Emergency Ward (Editor)

1956

[ ] The Museum and the Fury (Editor)

1964

[ ] An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy (Editor)

1980

[ ] Dialogue with a Woman Departed (Editor)

2016

[ ] Discovery in a Painting (Editor)

Camera

1936

[ ] The Plow That Broke the Plains (Director of Photography)

1980

[ ] Dialogue with a Woman Departed (Director of Photography)

Actor

1970

[ ] Discovery in a Landscape (Narrator)

1980

[ ] Dialogue with a Woman Departed (Himself)
[ ] Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika (Himself)

1989

[ ] Message to Man (Himself)
[ ] Strand, Under the Dark Cloth (Self)