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.

Presenter and comedian Andreu Buenafuente interviews Joan Gràcia, Paco Mir and Carles Sans moments a...

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

Africa's largest herd of elephants and a fearless pride of young lions come face to face in an epic ...

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...

The hottest rides, daredevil maneuvers and pulse-pounding music combine in this trip through Califor...

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

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

The second Kremo family acrobat film for the Lumiere. Involves one gag in which the adult is simulta...

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

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

Two years in a clown school. Against all odds and trends, learning how to make people laugh out at t...

Disneynature’s Elephant follows African elephant Shani and her spirited son Jomo as their herd make ...

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...

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