A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Daniel Durda is an American planetary scientist, astronomer, aerospace engineer, and artist known for his work in asteroid research, space mission design, and human spaceflight training. Durda earned his Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the University of Florida, specializing in asteroid dynamics and small body evolution in the solar system. His academic research has focused on the physical properties of asteroids, planetary impact processes, and space debris dynamics. Durda is a senior research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. His work involves planetary defense, asteroid impact modeling, and space mission studies. He has contributed to NASA-funded programs studying Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), planetary surface evolution, and space exploration technologies. A key area of his expertise is asteroid fragmentation and impact physics, where he has conducted laboratory and computational simulations to understand asteroid collisions. He has also participated in the development of space missions related to asteroid deflection and planetary protection. Durda has also worked on human spaceflight programs, training as an astronaut candidate for suborbital spaceflight research missions. He has participated in zero-gravity flights and trained for potential future suborbital missions with commercial spaceflight providers.
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.