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Leo Hurwitz

Leo Hurwitz

Leo Hurwitz

1909-06-23

New York, New York

DIRECTING

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.

Best known for:

The Plow That Broke the Plains

Native Land

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

The Sun and Richard Lippold

Strange Victory

Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

Heart of Spain

The National Hunger March 1931

For Life, Against the War

Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre

Bonus March 1932

National Hunger March 1931

Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932

America Today

Emergency Ward

The Young Fighter

Dancing James Berry

The Museum and the Fury

Here at the Water's Edge

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

In Search of Hart Crane

Light and the City

This Island

Discovery in a Landscape

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

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Filmography:

Bonus March 1932 (1932)
WORK AS:
Director, Cinematography
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 (1933)
WORK AS:
Director, Editor, Cinematography
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography
Native Land (1942)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer, Editor
Strange Victory (1948)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Emergency Ward (1952)
WORK AS:
Director, Editor
The Young Fighter (1953)
WORK AS:
Producer, Director
Dancing James Berry (1955)
WORK AS:
Writer, Director

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The Museum and the Fury (1956)
WORK AS:
Director, Producer
Here at the Water's Edge (1961)
WORK AS:
Director
The Sun and Richard Lippold (1966)
WORK AS:
Writer, Producer, Director
For Life, Against the War (1967)
WORK AS:
Director
Light and the City (1970)
WORK AS:
Producer, Director
This Island (1970)
WORK AS:
Director
Discovery in a Landscape (1970)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator
WORK AS:
Director, Producer
Discovery in a Painting (2016)
WORK AS:
Director, Producer, Editor

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