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.
Native Land
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
The Plow That Broke the Plains
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
Strange Victory
Heart of SpainAmerica Today
Light and the City
The Sun and Richard Lippold
This Island
For Life, Against the War
Message to Man
Here at the Water's Edge
The Young Fighter
Emergency Ward
Dancing James BerryAn Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. KennedyThe Museum and the Fury
Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes AmerikaHunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
