Filmography

The Circus Filmography is the product of collaboration between students and teacher-researchers from the Department Cinema, Theatre and Live Performance at the Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 University. It is a continuously updated website that is open to contributions, listing all films – fictions, animated films, documentaries, series, etc. – devoted to circus or alluding to it.

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Super Circus

Super Circus was an American television program which air


Annie Get Your Gun (Annie la reine du cirque)

Sharpshooter Annie Oakley is noticed by Buffalo Bill and


Wonder dog (Pluto acrobate)

Pluto is infatuated with pretty Dinah the Dachshund, but


Big top Bunny

In a large cage of Colonel Korny’s World Famous Circus, a


Le Costaud des Batignolles

Short puny Jules would like to be a beefy athlete.


Vesely Cirkus (Le Joyeux cirque)

Several circus numbers, illustrated by three artists, Fra


Limelight (Les Feux de la rampe)

London, summer 1914.


The Story of Three Loves (Histoire de trois amours)

Three loosely connected stories about love set in Europe


Stage Struck (a circus romance)

The daughter of an innkeeper elopes with an acrobat who w


Wintergatern programm

Max and Eugen Skladanowsky, inventors of the Bioscop (« B


Les Kirikis, acrobates japonais

Eleven people (4 men, 4 women, 2 teenagers, 1 child) dres


The circus boy

Captivated by circus shows, the farmer’s son decides to l


The Clown’s Daughter

A troupe comes to perform.


The Mountebank's Son

A mountebank’s son leaves to study medicine, as dreamed u


The Woman Always Pays

The piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young and handsome


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