Leo Hurwitz
An image from For Life, Against the War, one of the productions that also features Leo Hurwitz.
Leo Hurwitz

Leo Hurwitz

June 23, 1909 — 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 and Photo League, NYKino, and Frontier Films, Hurwitz remained the quintessential politically committed cameraman, editor, writer, and director.

Native Land

Native Land

1942

The Plow That Broke the Plains

The Plow That Broke the Plains

1936

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

1980

The Sun and Richard Lippold

The Sun and Richard Lippold

1966

Strange Victory

Strange Victory

1948

Heart of Spain

1937

The National Hunger March 1931

1932

For Life, Against the War

For Life, Against the War

1967