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

Strange Victory
1948
America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers
1951
For Life, Against the War
1967
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964
The Plow That Broke the Plains
1936
This Island
1970
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
1989
Native Land
1942
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
1932
The Sun and Richard Lippold
1966
Emergency Ward
1952
America Today
1934

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
5
Directing
23
Writing
8
Producing
9
Camera
2
Editing
8
Crew
2
1989
Message to Man
as Self
1989
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
as Self
1980
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
as Himself
1980
Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
as Himself
1970
Discovery in a Landscape
as Narrator