This gag-packed 1928 comedy ranks among Charlie Chaplin’s finest, thanks to some of the most audacious moments of his career, including a close brush with a lion and a tightrope walk with a barrelful of monkeys. The Circus, which won Chaplin his first Academy Award, is the perfect introduction to silent films and an uproarious pleasure for the whole family.
Content Advisory: mild violence, man pushes and slaps a woman.