A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Viking Samurai
David Kurzhal, known on Youtube as the "Viking Samurai", is a lifelong martial artist, natural bodybuilder, actor and screenwriter. His popular YouTube channel features interviews with many greats from the action and martial arts world including Scott Adkins, Sheldon Lettich, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Mohammed Qissi, Mark Dacascos, Michael Jai White, Benny "The Jet" Urquidez and so many more! The evolution of his channel started from talking about action and martial arts films, to interviewing people involved in their creation to meeting up with and training with many famous martial artists to now starring alongside them in movies!
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.