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Independent Lens | Meet the Ponce Family Circus! | PBS

Duration: 02:14
Program: Independent Lens #1321
Broadcast Date: May. 3, 2012

For generations the Ponce family has run one of Mexico's traditional family circuses. Ringmaster Tino struggles to keep the family business alive as life on the road and mounting debts threaten to pull his marriage apart.

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