The documentary “Pagliacci” celebrates – in a poetic way – what it means to be a clown. The film addresses philosophical and symbolic questions about man’s need to laugh at himself. In a sensorial and emotional mix, the film starts from what is most human and true: laughter.

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

The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for a me...

Cirque du Soleil presents The Mystery of Mystère, a captivating documentary that explores how arts a...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...
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'.

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...

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

A Documentary on the Creation of OVO, by Cirque du Soleil

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

In 1988, the Cirque du Soleil toured the United States and set up its big top in New York City - a g...

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

Noel Mason's vaudevillian skills are appreciated by his younger audience, but he is not making enoug...

From the slow waitings for opening of the big top to the loneliness in the dressing room backstage, ...

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

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

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

The neon sign ‘Circus’ illuminates the wide street of Naples’ suburbs: four circus families were aba...