The Up Collection

Watch The Up Collection in release order: 7 Plus Seven (1970), 21 Up (1977), Seven Up! (1985), 28 Up (1985), 35 Up (1991), 42 Up (1999), 49 Up (2006), 56 Up (2012), 63 Up (2019) and 70 Up (2026).

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 selected to represent the range of socio-economic backgrounds in Britain at that time, with the explicit assumption that each child's social class predetermines their future. Every seven years, the director, Michael Apted, films new material from as many of the fourteen as he can get to participate.

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   7 Plus Seven 1970

   ★ 7.3/10

   After a 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

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   21 Up 1977

   ★ 7.4/10

   After another 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! and 7 Plus Seven. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives…

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   Seven Up! 1985

   ★ 7.2/10

   A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. The filmmakers plan to re-interview them at 7 year intervals to track how their lives and attitudes change…

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   28 Up 1985

   ★ 7.5/10

   Just two years away from turning 30, participants in Michael Apted's documentary series are facing serious questions of identity and purpose, wondering whether they've found their place in the world.

5. 5

   35 Up 1991

   ★ 7.6/10

   Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

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   42 Up 1999

   ★ 7.6/10

   Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

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   49 Up 2006

   ★ 7.4/10

   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 and I will give…

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   56 Up 2012

   ★ 7.2/10

   When a cross-section of seven-year-olds were interviewed for 7 Up in 1964 it was immediately evident that their social backgrounds influenced their attitudes towards life. While the upper class children were confident…

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   63 Up 2019

   ★ 7.2/10

   Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

10. 10

    70 Up 2026

    ★ 8/10

    Across seven decades, British viewers watched 14 children grow into adults in films broadcast every seven years. In the series' final installment – with all surviving participants now in their seventies – what do their…