Leo Hurwitz Movies

By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage...

A documentary about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled farming destroyed the soil and led to the...

A documentary about the film-maker's wife and co-worker, Peggy Lawson, who died in 1971.

Produced and directed by Hurwitz for National Educational Television (precursor of PBS), Hurwitz uses biographer and Columbia professor, John...

Documentary about American filmmaker Leo Hurwitz.

Strange Victory" is about racial bias in post World War II America. Following "Native Land" in Leo Hurwitz' filmography, it uses some of the same...

An impressionistic study of the celebrated tap dancer.

Documentary examining the work of sculptor Richard Lippold, particular his sculpture of the sun at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

A film by Leo Hurwitz & Peggy Lawson.

This documentary studies the life and artwork of photographer Paul Strand, using his own compelling photography as well as interviews with his...

The film shows the National Unemployment Council Hunger March of Nov. and Dec. 1931, which set out from disparate parts of the U.S. to represent...

The first production from Frontier Films, the film production collective that was the successor to NYKino and the Workers Film and Photo League,...

Shot in Manhattan’s St. Vincent Hospital, creating what would be the antecedent of the direct cinema (or cinema verité) movement of the...

Directed by Hurwitz for the CBS Omnibus program, The Young Fighter is a moving portrait of a young boxer who faces key life decisions as he tries to...

Following his use of art, painting and sculpture, in his work of the previous decades, Hurwitz took on a project for the American Foundation of the...

One of the key works in creating the American social documentary film, this 1934 newsreel compilation crams a lot of information into just 11...

In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its...

From the perspective of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, documentary material, amongst this the freeing of the camp and the Nuremberg Trials with...

Following his use of art, painting and sculpture, in his work of the previous decades, Hurwitz took on a project for the American Foundation of the...