Leo Hurwitz

10 de mai. de 1936

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 pr...

11 de mai. de 1942

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 t...

25 de set. de 1948

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

30 de jan. de 1967

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

02 de jan. de 1937

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

02 de jan. de 1966

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

23 de nov. de 1980

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

01 de jan. de 1966

A film by Leo Hurwitz & Peggy Lawson.

01 de jan. de 1970

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 tw...

31 de jan. de 1932

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...

01 de jan. de 2016

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...

01 de jan. de 1970

An impressionistic study of the celebrated tap dancer.

01 de jan. de 1955

How the art in the Detroit Institute of Art connects to life's experiences and the neighborhood.

01 de jan. de 1970

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

01 de jan. de 1956

Bonus March shows unemployed WWI veterans marching on Washington, D.C., demanding their bonus money, and being forcefully evicted.

01 de dez. de 1932

A document of the 1931 national hunger march on Washington produced by the Workers Film and Photo League.

31 de jan. de 1932

Shot in Manhattan’s St. Vincent Hospital, creating what would be the antecedent of the direct cinema (or cinema verité) movement of the late 1950s ...

01 de jan. de 1952

Leo Hurwitz’s film, Here At The Water’s Edge, features the 1960 New York City’s waterfront. Made with photographer Charles Pratt, the film is a cin...

10 de out. de 1961

A document of the 1932 national hunger march on Washington produced by the Workers Film and Photo League.

02 de jan. de 1933

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 t...

20 de dez. de 1953

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

01 de jan. de 1934