A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Marcia A. Smith
Executive Producer:
2017 American Carnage
2017 Gavin Grimm vs.
2017 Picket Line
2021 Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021 Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
2023 Bulls and Saints
2023 Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
2023 Sound of the Police
2023 Sydney G. James: How We See Us
2024 Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
2025 Free for All: The Public Library
Screenplay:
2017 American Carnage
2017 Gavin Grimm vs.
2017 Picket Line
2017 Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
2021 Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021 Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
2023 Bulls and Saints
2023 Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
2023 Sound of the Police
2023 Sydney G. James: How We See Us
2024 Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
2025 Free for All: The Public Library
Writer:
1999 The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
2001 Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
2003 The Murder of Emmett Till
2004 A Place of Our Own
2017 American Carnage
2017 Gavin Grimm vs.
2017 Picket Line
2017 Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
2019 BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
2021 Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021 Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
2023 Bulls and Saints
2023 Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
2023 Sound of the Police
2023 Sydney G. James: How We See Us
2024 Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
2025 Free for All: The Public Library
Writer:
1988 American Experience
2009 We Shall Remain
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.