A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Don Schmitt
Donald Schmitt
Donald Raymond Schmitt is the former co-director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, where he served as Director of Special Investigations for 10 years. Prior to that, he was a special investigator for the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek. Schmitt is the author of dozens of articles about UFOs, as well as the co-author bestselling books 'Witness to Roswell' and 'Cover-Up at Roswell'. Presently, he is on the Board of Directors for the International UFO Research Museum.
Book:
1994 Roswell
Co-Producer:
1994 Roswell
2020 The Phenomenon
Other:
1994 Roswell
1996 Where Are All the UFO's?
2002 The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence
2020 The Phenomenon
Technical Advisor:
1994 Roswell
1996 Where Are All the UFO's?
2002 The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence
2020 The Phenomenon
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.