Leo Hurwitz Movies

  • 1942
    Native Land

    Native Land

    Native Land

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    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...

    Native Land
  • 1936
    The Plow That Broke the Plains

    The Plow That Broke the Plains

    The Plow That Broke the Plains

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    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...

    The Plow That Broke the Plains
  • 1948
    Strange Victory

    Strange Victory

    Strange Victory

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    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...

    Strange Victory
  • 1980
    Dialogue with a Woman Departed

    Dialogue with a Woman Departed

    Dialogue with a Woman Departed

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

    Dialogue with a Woman Departed
  • 1980
    Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

    Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

    Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

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    Documentary about American filmmaker Leo Hurwitz.

    Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
  • 1955
    Dancing James Berry

    Dancing James Berry

    Dancing James Berry

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    An impressionistic study of the celebrated tap dancer.

    Dancing James Berry
  • 1966
    In Search of Hart Crane

    In Search of Hart Crane

    In Search of Hart Crane

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

    In Search of Hart Crane
  • 1970
    Light and the City

    Light and the City

    Light and the City

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    A film by Leo Hurwitz & Peggy Lawson.

    Light and the City
  • 1932
    The National Hunger March 1931

    The National Hunger March 1931

    The National Hunger March 1931

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    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 National Hunger March 1931
  • 1989
    Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

    Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

    Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

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

    Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
  • 1937
    Heart of Spain

    Heart of Spain

    Heart of Spain

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

    Heart of Spain
  • 1966
    The Sun and Richard Lippold

    The Sun and Richard Lippold

    The Sun and Richard Lippold

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

    The Sun and Richard Lippold
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

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

    For Life, Against the War
  • 1952
    Emergency Ward

    Emergency Ward

    Emergency Ward

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

    Emergency Ward
  • 1953
    The Young Fighter

    The Young Fighter

    The Young Fighter

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    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...

    The Young Fighter
  • 1934
    America Today

    America Today

    America Today

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

    America Today
  • 1956
    The Museum and the Fury

    The Museum and the Fury

    The Museum and the Fury

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

    The Museum and the Fury
  • 2016
    Discovery in a Painting

    Discovery in a Painting

    Discovery in a Painting

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    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...

    Discovery in a Painting
  • 1989
    Message to Man

    Message to Man

    Message to Man

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    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...

    Message to Man
  • 1970
    Discovery in a Landscape

    Discovery in a Landscape

    Discovery in a Landscape

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    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...

    Discovery in a Landscape