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.

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

"Who is Weary Willie?" explores the life of the once-famous circus character Weary Willie and his st...

Jesus 'Chuy' Aceves and a dozen living members of his extended family suffer from the very rare cond...

This film will trace the emergence of the Killer Clown from historical roots in Italian Opera, to co...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Cirque du Soleil presents The Mystery of Mystère, a captivating documentary that explores how arts a...

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...

Near the region of Angkor Watt, a group of children capture a baby elephant and are just growing att...