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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

David Attenborough investigates the remarkable life and death of Jumbo the elephant - a celebrity an...
Benny Berdino, the owner of Europe's biggest circus, has a dream. To make sure that his dynasty will...

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

From Well Dressing to Garland Day and even elephants in Alfreton - a celebration of the traditional ...

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'.
How do you deal with life's curveballs? FIGURE 3 tells trapeze artist Korri Singh Aulakh's story of ...

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

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