A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Moss Side, Manchester, England, UK
Born:
July 23, 1948
Michael David Wood, OBE FSA (born 23 July 1948) is an English historian and broadcaster. He has presented numerous well-known television documentary series from the late 1970s to the present day. Wood has also written a number of books on English history, including In Search of the Dark Ages, The Domesday Quest, The Story of England, and In Search of Shakespeare. He was appointed Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester in 2013.
Director:
2016 The Story of China
Writer:
2006 Gilbert White: the Nature Man
2008 Christina: A Medieval Life
2015 Shakespeare's Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman
2016 The Story of China
Creator:
1979 In Search of the Dark Ages
2012 The Great British Story: A People's History
2016 The Story of China
Presenter:
1979 In Search of the Dark Ages
2009 Michael Wood: In search of Beowulf
2012 The Great British Story: A People's History
2016 The Story of China
Writer:
1979 In Search of the Dark Ages
2003 In Search of Shakespeare
2009 Michael Wood: In search of Beowulf
2012 The Great British Story: A People's History
2016 The Story of China
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.