Sideshow - Alive on the Inside (DVD)

This fascinating documentary provides a unique inside look into one of entertainment's most bizarre traditions, the sideshow. Narrated by Jason Alexander, this mind blowing program gets to know the characters behind the colorful banners and examines the mystique of the sideshow from its beginnings as a museum attraction through its heyday in the 1930s to its reinvention for a time that's more politically correct, but in some ways more outrageous. Highlights of the program include rare home interviews with veteran sideshow stars Percilla the Monkey Girl, Jeanie the Half-Girl, Siamese twins Ronnie and Donnie, and Sandy Allen, the World's Tallest Living Woman. The segments movingly show the human side behind the performers' unusual acts and reveal what life was like inside and outside of the sideshow. Also featured are archival footage and photos of some of the sideshow's strangest attractions, ranging from entertainers with unusual deformities to performers who swallow live animals. One of TLC's top-rated programs of all time, "Sideshow" is a captivating look into a strange, secretive world guaranteed to shock and amaze you.

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Bonus Segment: "World's Smallest: Frieda Pushnik".