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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her ang...

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...

Cirque du Soleil presents KÀ, its new epic tale, an unprecedented theatrical production now playing ...
Benny Berdino, the owner of Europe's biggest circus, has a dream. To make sure that his dynasty will...

A documentary portrait of sideshow impresario Wally Shufflebottom, Jr.

after mourning the passing of his late wife, Bill finds the courage to travel to New York City and r...

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

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

Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.

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

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...