Leo Hurwitz Movies

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

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

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.

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

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