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

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

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

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...

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

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