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.

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

A Documentary on the Creation of OVO, by Cirque du Soleil

The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for a me...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

As Cirque du Soleil reboots its flagship production, O, more than a year after an abrupt shutdown, p...

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...

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