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 World's Loneliest Elephant" Kaavan will finally experience freedom, thanks to his biggest champ...
Elephants are among the most majestic and intelligent creatures on Earth--but for hundreds of years,...
Amidst the approaching colorful circus performance, we looked underneath the big top to meet circus ...
The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s...
Vienna’s Prater is an amusement park and a desire machine. No mechanical invention, no novel idea or...
National Geographic filmmakers, Dereck and Beverly Joubert, explore how some animals are thrust toge...
The Pickle Family Circus was founded by Lorenzo Pisoni's parents in 1974. The film documents the spi...
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...
Ashes and Snow, a film by Gregory Colbert, uses both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinar...
The Story of an Encounter is a documentary that captures the unexpected encounter between México and...
The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for a me...
The comedian Timoteo is the leader of a cross-dresser circus that has toured through Chile for forty...
On the northern bank of the Sand River in the Mala-Mala Game Reserve in South Africa, seven magnific...
An account of the life and work of the Spanish clown, mime, acrobat and actor Marcelino Orbés (1873-...
David Attenborough investigates the remarkable life and death of Jumbo the elephant - a celebrity an...