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Entertainment
Movies:
TriCo Film Collection
Search for films, or browse by genre or country.
Hulu
Hulu's movie library includes full-length movies from The Usual Suspects, Ice Age, and Point Break to Some Like It Hot, In Her Shoes, and Me, Myself and Irene, as well as hundreds of clips from classic movies such as Aliens, Die Hard, Little Miss Sunshine, Napoleon Dynamite, and Vertigo. Updated frequently.
Music:
TriCo Music Collection
Search by title, composer or keyword.
Database of recorded American music
A collection of sound recordings documenting American music largely ignored by the commercial recording companies. Works can be browsed by work, album or track titles, as well as by artist roles, and date of recording and composition. Some biographical and role information are provided for artists.
Foreign Internet Radio
Naxos music library
Provides online audio recordings of classical, folk, jazz, and world music from the Naxos, Marco Polo, and Da Capo labels.
Naxos music library jazz
Provides online audio recordings of new and historical jazz from the Fantasy and Naxos Jazz labels.
Pandora Radio
Add the names of your favorite artists or songs and Pandora will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find and play songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice.
Smithsonian global sound
Provides online audio recordings of American folk, blues, bluegrass, jazz, spoken word, and world music from the Smithsonian Folkways label and others.
WSRN
The radio station of Swarthmore College, broadcasting live online and at 110 watts at a frequency of 91.5 Mhz 24 hours a day. WSRN is entirely operated by the students of Swarthmore College.
BreakThru Radio
BreakThru Radio is devoted to giving a voice to talented, upcoming artists and empowering DJs to pick and play their own music. Unlike traditional radio, BTR no restrictions on style - they're happy to play rock, punk, hip hop, electronica, alt-country, reggae, metal, soul, et al.
TV:
Hulu
Hulu offers full episodes and clips from current primetime shows – for example, Family Guy, 30 Rock, The Office, House, The Simpsons, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Friday Night Lights – as well as a massive selection of TV classics, from Arrested Development and Firefly to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miami Vice, Roswell and many more.
Network and Cable TV
- ABC: Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Ugly Betty
- NBC: 30 Rock, Heroes, The Office
- CBS: Current shows, as well as TV classics including 90210, The Twilight Zone, and Twin Peaks
- The CW: America's Next Top Model, Gossip Girl
- FOX: House, The Simpsons
- Comedy Central: Clips from The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and more
Books:
McCabe's Audio Book Collection
Swarthmore Public Library
Copyright:
Swarthmore College Copyright Guidelines: Software and DMCA
Excerpts from the College's copyright policy that are particularly pertinent to computing.