The Cirque: An American Odyssey

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and followed their lives for a year. The artists, from...

Tunahaki is the extraordinary story of nine gifted orphans who are acrobats. We follow their journey as an American volunteer takes them from Africa...

A surreal look at the day-to-day life of American soldiers stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba through the eyes of a traveling circus troupe cleared to...

A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her anger shatters her world and she finds herself in...

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of...

From the Italian 'saltare in banco' – which literally means 'to jump on a bench' – Saltimbanco explores the urban experience in all its...

Icarus is the main character of Varekai, who falls to the ground, breaking his legs as he does. He is suddenly in a strange, new world full of...

The documentary “Pagliacci” celebrates – in a poetic way – what it means to be a clown. The film addresses philosophical and...

For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like...

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

One of the earliest Cirque du Soleil releases, filmed during a tour of the troupe's native Canada in 1986 and filled with their trademark costumes,...

1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its 21st century counterpart in this vivid time capsule.