A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. Director Michael Apted plans to re-interview them at 7 year interviews to determine how th...( read more
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"Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man."
In 1964, Paul Almond and researcher Michael Apted took that quote and decided to make a short television film. Since then, Michael Apted has helmed the series and documented the same group of people every seven y...( read more)
A short, sweet, addicting, and influential film. Translating an inclusive lifelong study (of the kind usually reserved for clinical trials) into a sociological documentary takes bravado... but it is amiably handled here.
Regardless, the film is limited due to the short-sightedne...( read more)
The first installment of the series. A nice intro to our subjects as children.
first of all, this five star rating is a general rating to the whole series, aswel as the review. secondly, its a magnificent study, more than anything else. more than the label of documentary or tv show. I saw the whole series, from when the subjects were still children, until t...( read more)
It's a simple beginning to what seems to be a very daring and lengthy film series. The makers take children from all over England from various social groups and ask them common questions about their lives. Did they want kids or marriage? What did they think of folks of differe...( read more)
Up Series - GENERAL REVIEW
GREAT, GREAT, GREAT series to watch these movies...started watching them all in order in 2007...
(by coincidence one of the subjects ends up living in Madison, WI!)
So very interesting to watch this non-statistically-relevant social experiment unfold...( read more)
What an incredible idea. I almost wish that someone would have done this with kids in the U.S. But I feel like the results will have a universal appeal anyway.
I honestly can't wait to follow up with all these kids...
One of the very best documentaries out there, you really grow to care about these individuals and wonder where life has taken them in a span of seven years.
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