“If one were to watch all of them, god forbid at one sitting, but over a period of time, how different they’d all be…” Michael Apted on the Up Series, from the director commentary of 42 Up. It begins ...

"In 1964, director Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven year old children for the documentary "Seven Up". He's been back to film them every seven years. Now they are 42." ...

The Up Series is a series of documentary films produced by Granada Television that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. The children were ...

Premised on the theory, "Give me the child until he is seven, and I will show you the man," the extraordinary 7 Up documentary series began in 1964 with 14 children from widely varied backgrounds, and ...