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...

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

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

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

Sangduen Chailert, or Lek, as she is generally known, has already rescued over 200 elephants. She ha...
Nikki Brown Clown is a clown with a purpose. She advocates for Portland's displaced black community ...

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...

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

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'.

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 ...

Africa's largest herd of elephants and a fearless pride of young lions come face to face in an epic ...
How do you deal with life's curveballs? FIGURE 3 tells trapeze artist Korri Singh Aulakh's story of ...

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

David Attenborough investigates the remarkable life and death of Jumbo the elephant - a celebrity an...

Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.