Leo Hurwitz Movies

  • 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
  • 1932
    National Hunger March 1931

    National Hunger March 1931

    National Hunger March 1931

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

    National Hunger March 1931
  • 1932
    Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre

    Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre

    Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre

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    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...

    Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
  • 1933
    Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932

    Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932

    Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932

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

    Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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