Founded in 1937, Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. is a successful, growing business privately owned by the Swank family. Headquartered in St. Louis, Swank also maintains sales offices in New York and Paris, with an international shipping and distribution facility located near Chicago. Swank is the world's largest non-theatrical distributor of motion pictures for public performance and the acknowledged leader in the field.

Major Hollywood and independent movie studios have appointed Swank as their exclusive licensing and distribution partner to offer their box-office hits for public performance in non-theatrical markets (markets outside theaters). Swank represents Walt Disney Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Warner Bros., NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, Focus Features, ThinkFilm, Miramax Films, LIONSGATE, The Weinstein Company, USA Films, HBO, New Market Films and many other independent studios.

Swank Motion Pictures provides both public performance licensing rights and licensed movies to numerous non-theatrical markets, including worldwide cruise lines, U.S. colleges and universities, K-12 public schools and libraries, American civilian and military hospitals, motor coaches, Amtrak trains, correctional facilities and other markets such as parks, art museums and businesses.