This 90-minute documentary chronicles the making of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s 146th Edition of The Greatest Show On Earth including heartfelt moments from the performers as they prepared to take their final bow.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Cirque du Soleil presents KÀ, its new epic tale, an unprecedented theatrical production now playing ...

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

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

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

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

Tucked away in northern Indiana, the city of Peru, Indiana is the circus capitol of the world. Thous...
Short dramatised documentary showing the ups and downs of daily life on a circus farm. “The only lig...

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

Reconciliation becomes possible between a gay circus trainer and his mom when he and his husband ado...
A clown recalls the days when he first joined the Cole Brothers circus and discusses how the Greates...

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