A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Emmy nominated composer Tom Phillips' credits include well over 500 films for national broadcast networks such as PBS, ABC, CBS, National Geographic Channel, Lifetime, A&E, HBO and others. Along the way he has scored many Emmy award winning films, Sundance Film Festival winners, independent feature films and museum installations such as complex multi-media projects for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Music:
2002 A Brilliant Madness
2005 Buddy
2009 Frogs: The Thin Green Line
2017 Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
2017 The Great War
2018 Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route
2019 The Feud
2021 Voice of Freedom
2022 Becoming Frederick Douglass
2023 Sound of the Police
2023 The Lie Detector
Original Music Composer:
2002 A Brilliant Madness
2005 Buddy
2009 Frogs: The Thin Green Line
2014 Freedom Summer
2017 Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
2017 The Great War
2018 Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route
2019 The Feud
2021 Attica
2021 Voice of Freedom
2022 Becoming Frederick Douglass
2023 Sound of the Police
2023 The Lie Detector
Music:
1988 American Experience
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.