New instalments of the world’s longest-running documentary franchise. Spanning over decades, the seminal series revisits the same 14 Britons every 7 years since 1964, whose loves and losses offer a penetrating look into the British society and life itself.
- Factual
- Year 1964 - 2019
- 1 Season
New instalments of the world’s longest-running documentary franchise. Spanning over decades, the seminal series revisits the same 14 Britons every 7 years since 1964, whose loves and losses offer a penetrating look into the British society and life itself.
- Year: 1964
E1 • 7 Up
Fourteen 7-years-olds were selected and interviewed in 1964, they talked about their families and their aspirations for life.
E2 • 7 Plus Seven
Seven years after the first film, the children have all now reached the age of 14.
E3 • 21 Up
The 'children' are now aged twenty-one and, although some of them have realized their seven year old ambitions, others are leading quite different lives from those suggested seven years earlier.
E4 • 28 Up: Part 1
Director Michael Apted revisits the lives of those 7-years-old who opened their hearts and revealed all about the dreams and aspirations for the future 21 years ago. Part 1.
E5 • 28 Up: Part 2
Director Michael Apted revisits the lives of those 7-years-old who opened their hearts and revealed all about the dreams and aspirations for the future 21 years ago. Part 2.
E6 • 35 Up
Now at the age of 35, have their lives and desires developed as they had thought?
E7 • 42 Up
The original seven-year-olds are now forty-two. Careers are stuck or flourishing, marriages are strong, shaky, or over.
E8 • 49 Up
Another seven years have passed, the program returns to find out there are some unexpected changes - including one of the original characters who's back after a long absence.
E9 • 56 Up: Part 1
Director Michael Apted is back to revisit his original subjects from 1964 and sees how their lives are progressing now that they are 56 years old.
E10 • 56 Up: Part 2
At the age of 56, how are they facing up to getting older? How many of the original children are still taking part?
E11 • 56 Up: Part 3
The group are once more brought together and, assess whether their lives have been ruled by circumstance or self-determination.
E12 • 63 Up
We return to visit the people whose lives have been followed since they were seven while featuring more of the original line-up than ever before.
- Crew
Michael Apted
Director
