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Leo Hurwitz
New York, New York
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 a…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2016
Discovery in a Painting
Movie Producer
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1989
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
Movie Self
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1989
Message to Man
Movie Self
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1980
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Movie Himself
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1980
Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
Movie Himself
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1970
This Island
Movie Director
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1970
Discovery in a Landscape
Movie Narrator
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1970
Light and the City
Movie Producer
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1967
For Life, Against the War
Movie Director
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1966
In Search of Hart Crane
Movie Writer
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1966
The Sun and Richard Lippold
Movie Writer
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1964
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
Movie Director
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1961
Here at the Water's Edge
Movie Director
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1956
The Museum and the Fury
Movie Director
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1955
Dancing James Berry
Movie Writer
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1953
The Young Fighter
Movie Producer
More credits
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1952
Emergency Ward
Movie Director
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1951
America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers
Movie Director
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1948
Strange Victory
Movie Director
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1943
Tomorrow We Fly
Movie Director
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1942
Native Land
Movie Director
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1937
Heart of Spain
Movie Editor
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1936
The Plow That Broke the Plains
Movie Director of Photography
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1934
America Today
Movie Director
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1933
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
Movie Director
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1932
Bonus March 1932
Movie Director
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1932
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
Movie Director
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1932
The National Hunger March 1931
Movie Director
