A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Howard B. Swartz
Director:
2005 The Space Shuttle: Countdown to Comeback
Executive Producer:
2003 Coming Home from Space: The Challenge of Re-Entry
2005 The Space Shuttle: Countdown to Comeback
2009 Monster Black Holes
2009 Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009 Titanic: How It Really Sank
2012 Ice Age Death Trap
2012 Secrets of the Sun
2012 Ultimate Mars Challenge
2020 Apocalypse '45
2021 Jackass Shark Week
2021 The Real Sharknado
2022 January 6th
Writer:
2003 Coming Home from Space: The Challenge of Re-Entry
2005 The Space Shuttle: Countdown to Comeback
2009 Monster Black Holes
2009 Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009 Titanic: How It Really Sank
2012 Ice Age Death Trap
2012 Secrets of the Sun
2012 Ultimate Mars Challenge
2020 Apocalypse '45
2021 Jackass Shark Week
2021 The Real Sharknado
2022 January 6th
Executive Producer:
2021 Meet The Meerkats
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.