Leo Hurwitz Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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