Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and aficionados, this four-hour mini-series follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus and brings to life an era when Circus Day would shut down a town and its stars were among the most famous people in the country.

Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreograp...

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

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...

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

Tucked away in northern Indiana, the city of Peru, Indiana is the circus capitol of the world. Thous...

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

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

The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s...

Sangduen Chailert, or Lek, as she is generally known, has already rescued over 200 elephants. She ha...

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

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

Ashes and Snow, a film by Gregory Colbert, uses both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinar...

Disneynature’s Elephant follows African elephant Shani and her spirited son Jomo as their herd make ...
Benny Berdino, the owner of Europe's biggest circus, has a dream. To make sure that his dynasty will...

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

The elephants that roam the steep slopes and high forests of Africa's Great White Mountain are under...

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

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