The Circus has been preserved on film for all to remember. You’ll find your Favorite Circus Movies available in many Formats.
Super Circus now on DVD – New Release
The 1950’s TV show Super Circus with Mary Hartline and Claude Kirchner has just been released with 6 classic episodes captured from the vaults on this new DVD. The shows featured Mary Hartline in her Majorette uniform as one of the Ringmaster hosts. Mary later went on to fame and fortune when she married dime store magnate Woolworth Donahue. Included are the Super Circus Brass band and clown regulars Cliffy, Nicky, and Spanky. Claude Kirshner later became to well known spokesman for Marx Toys. The 6 shows are all in Black and White and runs almost three full hours.
$9.98 each.
Kings of the Circus
This DVD is from the Murphy Entertainment group. The Ringling story is as amazing as the circus itself. This is the story of how 5 poor boys from Baraboo, Wi. became Kings of the Circus. There is a nostalgic look through the development of the Ringling empire to modern day.
Genre: Documentary
Rating: NR
Release Date: 26-JUL-2005
Media Type: DVD
$19.99
A FLASH OF LIGHT
Each summer, Edward J Kelty, a Manhattan banquet photographer active from the 1920’s through the 1940’s, would load his enormous camera into a small truck and follow the circus, first up and down the East Coast and eventually throughout the United States. His extraordinary photographs captured the spirit and atmosphere of the big top, and with a “poof” of flash powder preserved mesmerizing images of the horse wranglers, acrobats, ticket-takers, candy butchers, teeterboard tumblers and sideshow exotics that populated the colorful world of the traveling circuses.
Kelty was the Cecil B. DeMille of circus photographers, at times assembling as many as one thousand circus performers for spectacular group shots. Particularly popular were his annual “Congress of Freaks” photographs, which gathered together the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus sideshow attractions-from Ajax the sword swallower to Eko and Iko, the “ambassadors from Mars”- for a “class picture.” He sold these group photos – as well as prints depicting individual performers, circus lots, and big top interiors – to circus owners, performers and fans.
A Flash of Light chronicles the life and work of EJ Kelty from his war years through the depression, up to his unheralded death in Chicago in 1967.
$19.99 each
CIRCUS WORLD
The 1964 classic about a showman, his past love, and a child. Matt, an American circus owner, tours Europe in search of his alcoholic ex-girl friend Lily. Lily runs away after her husband falls to his death from the trapeze due to her affair with Matt. Years later, she returns to watch her daughter Toni rehearse on the lot. Circus thrills and spills from the US to Europe.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: WAYNE/HATHAWAY
Title: CIRCUS WORLD
Street Release Date: 10/05/2004
Import
Genre: DRAMA
$15.99
RING OF FEAR w/ CLYDE BEATTY
Mickey Spillane playing himself attempts to solve the mystery of a series of accidents under the famed big tops of the Clyde Beatty Circus. Features the fearless animal training of America’s foremost subjugator of wild animals, the one, the only, Clyde Beatty.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 6-JUN-2006
Media Type: DVD
$14.99 each
LOST JUNGLE VOL 1 & 2 (COMPLETE SERIAL)
Clyde Beatty just happens to be the world’s greatest animal trainer. When Beatty’s plane crashes on an unexplored island full of wild animals, he discovers the island is hiding a secret: among the animals are also wild cultists! With so many perils around, will Beatty save the day? Included here are 12 chapters of cliffhanging action.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 27-NOV-2007
Media Type: DVD
$14.99 each
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Presents life under the circus big top, featuring the Ringling Bros. Circus. This is the Cecil B. DeMille classic as filmed in 1951 while under canvas, at winter quarters and in studio lots. Features Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, Dorothy Lamour, Cornel Wilde, and the cast and crew of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: NR
Release Date: 6-APR-2004
Media Type: DVD
$12.99 each.
TOBY TYLER
This is the Disney Classic of Toby Tyler starring Kevin Corcorian.This is the story of a young boy who runs away from home to join the circus and eventually becomes a star. Troubles abound with a mischievous Chimp, a wagon tipping over, a rotten concessianaire and family troubles. This is great family entertainment. Genre: Feature Film Family Rating: G Release Date: 2-AUG-2005 Media Type: DVD
$14.99 each.
CIRQUE DU SOLIEIL – A BAROQUE ODYSSEY
A 10-year anniversary retrospective of the novel Canadian circus, Cirque du Soleil.
Genre: Performing Arts – Ballet/Dance
Rating: NR
Release Date: 30-OCT-2001
Media Type: DVD
$24.95 each
CIRQUE DU SOLIEL – A NOUVELLE EXPERIENCE
Features performances and acts of the Cirque du Soleil, a bright and novel circus which emphasizes acrobatics.
Genre: Performing Arts – Ballet/Dance
Rating: NR
Release Date: 30-OCT-2001
Media Type: DVD
$24.95 each
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL:CIRQUE REINVENTE 
Features performances and acts of the Cirque du Soleil, a bright and novel circus which emphasizes acrobatics. Genre: Performing Arts – Ballet/Dance Rating: NR Release Date: 30-OCT-2001 Media Type: DVD
$24.95 each
Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus
The Little Tramp falls in love with a circus performer who is trying hard to impress her father. Genre: Classics (silents/avant garde) Rating: NR Release Date: 2-MAR-2004 Media Type: DVD
PT BARNUM 
The life of the great American showman is entertainingly chronicled in this dramatized biography starring Beau Bridges. While this made-for-TV movie isn’t terribly ambitious, it does provide a credible look at how Barnum came to find that his calling in life was to dazzle people with things they could scarcely believe, all the time making sure that they paid handsomely to be “humbugged.” As an ambitious youth at a time when America was enjoying explosive growth, Barnum’s burgeoning career took off when he bought what was essentially a museum of freaks and frauds. As charmingly portrayed by Bridges, Barnum was a bundle of energy who instinctively knew what people wanted, and he unfailingly turned his acts, such as the famed midget Tom Thumb or the great soprano Jenny Lind, into national obsessions. This film captures the varied facets of Barnum’s personality, from a natural playfulness that inspired his fantastic publicity stunts to a shrewd sense of business that could made him one of the wealthiest Americans of his time. And as Barnum was something of an emblematic American, this story of his life not only portrays a unique personality, but evokes the exuberant and growing American nation. –Robert J. McNamara
Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: UN Release Date: 13-NOV-2007 Media Type: DVD
Filmed version of Broadway musical about the life of circus showman, P.T. Barnum.
Genre: Performing Arts – Theater
Rating: NR
Release Date: 27-FEB-2001
Media Type: DVD
$29.95 each
