Leo Hurwitz Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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