The Greatest Show on Earth

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 used 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

Sport

• The FIFA World Cup,^[1] considered the world's premier international association football competition, with 211 nations bidding to participate in the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The FIFA World Cup is consistently ranked as the most watched sporting event in the world.^[2]

• The Olympic Games,^[3] 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