Sara Greene is a 20-year circus industry veteran with a big dream—to start her own tented circus. As the summer moves along on Weirs Beach, Sara faces serious obstacles in fulfilling her dream, and in sharing that dream with her ailing step-mother, to whom her show was dedicated.

From the slow waitings for opening of the big top to the loneliness in the dressing room backstage, ...
How do you deal with life's curveballs? FIGURE 3 tells trapeze artist Korri Singh Aulakh's story of ...

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

What do Daniel Webster, Dr. Seuss, C. Everett Koop, Robert Frost and 100+ Winter Olympians have in c...

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish...

From the Italian 'saltare in banco' – which literally means 'to jump on a bench' – Saltimbanco explo...

Icarus is the main character of Varekai, who falls to the ground, breaking his legs as he does. He i...

A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her ang...

Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to crea...

One man, one camera, one goal...to capture the essence of adventure. An experimental, often abstract...

Every summer, a horde of professional Santas, Mrs. Clauses, and elves descend on a campsite in the N...

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...

American’s Stone Henge is an enigmatic site located in New Hampshire. It holds secrets that are slow...

A story of the world's first female tiger trainer who claimed her love for her tigers was so great s...

French filmmaker Laurent Chevallier always wanted to make a documentary on an African circus, but th...

The documentary “Pagliacci” celebrates – in a poetic way – what it means to be a clown. The film add...

Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.

The comedian Timoteo is the leader of a cross-dresser circus that has toured through Chile for forty...

While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen o...