Instructors from the Ringling Bros. Circus Clown College demonstrate juggling instruction, clown acts, special make-up techniques, costume design, and more tips used by some of the world's most famous clowns.

Grazing the Sky is a compelling look at the lives of trapeze artists and other circus performers. Th...
Experimental documentary short starring Batato Barea and Peter Pank, filmed in July 1991
Alexander Calder created and performed one of the most important and beloved works, his miniature ci...

Focusing on the predicaments of those born with genetic defect causing dwarfism, the film is the lov...

Since the ban on use of animals in circus shows, the Great Sumatra Circus faces a major financial cr...

The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and F...

The story of a nine-year-old boy Denis, who first enters the circus. The new world captures his imag...

The Pickle Family Circus was founded by Lorenzo Pisoni's parents in 1974. The film documents the spi...

Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and afi...

On his deathbed, Ludovico entrusts his daughter Margot to the housekeeper, Felicia, asking that the ...

An examination of bodies, movement and the stillness of landscape brought to you by the entrancing C...

When a natural catastrophe threatens to destroy the sacred Tree of Souls, Ralu and Entu, two Omatica...

In Florida, parents can hire Wrinkles the Clown to scare their misbehaving children.

An account of the life and work of the Spanish clown, mime, acrobat and actor Marcelino Orbés (1873-...

Elephants are among the most majestic and intelligent creatures on Earth--but for hundreds of years,...

Vienna’s Prater is an amusement park and a desire machine. No mechanical invention, no novel idea or...

Life as the sole sale item in the clearance corner of Eben's Bikes can get lonely. So Red, a unicycl...

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

LUZIA takes you to an imaginary Mexico, like in a waking dream, where light (“luz” in Spanish) quenc...