Circus Movies

The parade of carriages, costumed riders, and exotic animals passing over the bridge at Inverness, Scotland, has attracted a crowd, despite the rain.

Because of a cruel ringmaster, Jolly the Clown and Ellsworth Elephant are both fired from the circus. Jolly tries to help the pink pygmy elephant's...

A mechanical machine displays a reel of objects with music box accompaniment.

The Giver Gives to Give is a black and white silent film starring a clown in search of a stage, an audience, a friend.

Comedy routine featuring two clowns. Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

Short film about animal training in a circus.

A documentary portrait of sideshow impresario Wally Shufflebottom, Jr.

"When I Grow Up" follows the imagination of a young boy's dreams for his future.

Silent cartoon.

A circus under the iron rule of an unreasonable leader, enthusiastically and unblinkingly followed, and one member whose faith in the circus, their...

Short dramatised documentary showing the ups and downs of daily life on a circus farm. “The only light comes from the flames of the funeral...

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...

This 90-minute documentary chronicles the making of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s 146th Edition of The Greatest Show On Earth including...