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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s...
How do you deal with life's curveballs? FIGURE 3 tells trapeze artist Korri Singh Aulakh's story of ...

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

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

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

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

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

Imagine walking some of the largest land animals in existence across one of the most densely populat...

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

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