The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Circus

• Dan Rice's circus (1830s-1860s) was first described by an Arkansas paper as the "greatest show on earth"
• Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus uses it as a slogan

Film

• The Greatest Show on Earth (film) (1952), an American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Literature

• The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009), a book by British ethologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins

Music

Artists

• The Greatest Show on Earth (band), a British band from the early 1970s

Songs

• "The Greatest Show on Earth", a song by metal band Machinae Supremacy
• "Greatest Show on Earth", a song by Michael Jackson on his Ben album (1972)
• "The Greatest Show on Earth", a song by metal band Nightwish on their album Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)
• The Weather Show, a segment of the Schoolhouse Rock! Science Rock series, originally titled "The Greatest Show on Earth" and withdrew after complaint from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Eventually retitled.

Television

• The Greatest Show on Earth (TV series), a 1963 television series starring Jack Palance and based on the above film

Theater

• The Greatest Show on Earth, a 1930s American play by George Somnes

Events

Sport

• The Olympic Games,^[1] considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating in 33 different sports. The 16-day competition is often referred to as the Greatest Show on Earth in the media.

Festivals

• Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, an annual event celebrated on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday

Nature

• Aurora Borealis, a natural light display observed around the Arctic circle

References