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.

Sangduen Chailert, or Lek, as she is generally known, has already rescued over 200 elephants. She ha...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...
Benny Berdino, the owner of Europe's biggest circus, has a dream. To make sure that his dynasty will...

Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.

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

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