Circus Movies

A 1986 set of three French clay animation shorts: The Multi-Coloured Little Circus and The Two Little Nightwalkers, both by Jacques Remy-Girerd, and...

Two children sneak out behind their parents' back, to a magical circus world.

Revelers mingle, drink, and dance at a street carnival.

Eighteen-year-old Aaliyah flies on aerial silks. Her 16-year-old cousin Bre twirls on hoops. They dream of escaping the violence that marred their...

A clown recalls the days when he first joined the Cole Brothers circus and discusses how the Greatest Show on Earth has changed. He reminisces about...

The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and France. This circus art origin show is presented...

Neil Patrick Harris hosts a variety show that features stand-up comedy, magic acts, juggling, sword-swallowers, puppets, ventriloquists and trapeze...

A duo of acrobats go onstage one last time, united under the spotlights even as their harmony backstage is broken.

The circus comes to a small boy's town.

A young bank clerk is transferred, in view of his special way of being, to a branch for misfits, where he will meet a whole series of very strange...

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

Melrose's circus is being threatened by his competitor, who's angry that Melrose has outmanuevered him in bookings; what he doesn't know is that the...

French filmmaker Laurent Chevallier always wanted to make a documentary on an African circus, but there were no native circuses on the continent. So...