49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-based Granada's World in Action team, inspired by the Jesuit maxim "Give me the child until he is seven ...

Michael Apted’s “49 Up” is the latest installment in an ongoing series that, collectively, makes up one of the great documentaries in the history of the cinema. It’s a real movie event: Apted’s ...

Watching Michael Apted’s “Up” documentaries is an emotional experience, an uncanny sensation of watching lives fast-forward before your eyes. In 1964, Apted (then working as a researcher) first ...

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 ...

If you watch only one program this week, don't miss "49 Up" on "P.O.V." (9 p.m., PBS). The seventh in director Michael Apted's ("Coal Miner's Daughter) "Up" films, this remarkable documentary ...

IN 1964, the British TV series “World in Action” hosted an episode titled “Seven Up!” In it, director Paul Almond interviewed several 7-year-old children from different classes and backgrounds about ...

There’s a Jesuit saying that goes something like ”Give me the child until he is 7 and I will give you the man.” 49 Up says, here is the man — and behold, he is a grandfather, too. At least, Tony is, ...