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.
Jesus 'Chuy' Aceves and a dozen living members of his extended family suffer from the very rare cond...
This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...
An examination of bodies, movement and the stillness of landscape brought to you by the entrancing C...
This film will trace the emergence of the Killer Clown from historical roots in Italian Opera, to co...
"Who is Weary Willie?" explores the life of the once-famous circus character Weary Willie and his st...
Ashes and Snow, a film by Gregory Colbert, uses both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinar...
Near the region of Angkor Watt, a group of children capture a baby elephant and are just growing att...
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...
Icarus is the main character of Varekai, who falls to the ground, breaking his legs as he does. He i...
One man, one camera, one goal...to capture the essence of adventure. An experimental, often abstract...
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'.
Experimental documentary short starring Batato Barea and Peter Pank, filmed in July 1991
Disneynature’s Elephant follows African elephant Shani and her spirited son Jomo as their herd make ...
As Cirque du Soleil reboots its flagship production, O, more than a year after an abrupt shutdown, p...
A surreal look at the day-to-day life of American soldiers stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba through...
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
Welcome to the Cirque Du Bizarre, the fetish circus par excellence! On the program are artistic and ...