The Pickle Family Circus was founded by Lorenzo Pisoni's parents in 1974. The film documents the spirit, the lunacy, the daring, the danger and the dynamics of growing up in a circus family.
Vienna’s Prater is an amusement park and a desire machine. No mechanical invention, no novel idea or...
A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her ang...
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...
Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and afi...
The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and F...
In the magical world of La Nouba, dreams become reality and talent turns the ordinary into the extra...
Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to crea...
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
The comedian Timoteo is the leader of a cross-dresser circus that has toured through Chile for forty...
One man, one camera, one goal...to capture the essence of adventure. An experimental, often abstract...
As Cirque du Soleil reboots its flagship production, O, more than a year after an abrupt shutdown, p...
For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native...
1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its 21st century counterpart in this vivid time capsule.
Elephants are among the most majestic and intelligent creatures on Earth--but for hundreds of years,...
Aunt Neirud was always present at family gatherings. Neirud was big, strong, and worked in the circu...
"Who is Weary Willie?" explores the life of the once-famous circus character Weary Willie and his st...
The documentary “Pagliacci” celebrates – in a poetic way – what it means to be a clown. The film add...