Leo Hurwitz Movies

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

The only known film record of the mass march and meeting held in Detroit on Feb. 4, 1932, against hunger and unemployment. Also shows the dramatic...

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...

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...

In 1964, National Educational Television decided to make a program as a memorial to President Kennedy. Since he had been assassinated just a year...

Rodgers’ friends and colleagues pay tribute to him. Among the original Broadway cast members reprising the songs they introduced are Vivienne...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

1943 Oscar nominated film in the category Best Documentary, Short Subject.

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...

Documentary about American filmmaker Leo Hurwitz.

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

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...

An impressionistic study of the celebrated tap dancer.

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