Directing • AGE 81
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, NYKi...


Discovery in a Painting
Producer
2016

Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
Self
1989

Message to Man
Self
1989

Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Himself
1980

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
Himself
1980

Discovery in a Landscape
Narrator
1970

Light and the City
Producer
1970

This Island
Director
1970

For Life, Against the War
Director
1967

In Search of Hart Crane
Writer
1966

The Sun and Richard Lippold
Writer
1966

An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
Director
1964

Here at the Water's Edge
Director
1961

The Museum and the Fury
Director
1956

Dancing James Berry
Writer
1955

The Young Fighter
Producer
1953

Emergency Ward
Director
1952

America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers
Director
1951

Strange Victory
Director
1948

Tomorrow We Fly
Director
1943

Native Land
Director
1942

Heart of Spain
Editor
1937

The Plow That Broke the Plains
Director of Photography
1936

Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
Director
1933

Bonus March 1932
Director
1932

Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
Director
1932

The National Hunger March 1931
Director
1932