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The Legacy of the Up Series (Part 5 of 5)

Critic Roger Ebert and Filmmaker Michael Apted talk about what it means to make a noble documentary.

Everybody Has a Story to Tell (Part 4 of 5)

Filmmaker Michael Apted praises the participants of the Up series.

Tough Questions (Part 3 of 5)

Critic Roger Ebert asks filmmaker Michael Apted about some of the hard questions he's posed to the participants of the Up series.

1963 As a Turning Point (Part 2 of 5)

Critic Roger Ebert and filmmaker Michael Apted discuss the 1960s, when Apted first began filming the Up series.

Apted and Ebert (Part 1 of 5)

Critic Roger Ebert and filmmaker Michael Apted talk about the making of 49 Up.

  • Updated on June 24, 2009

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49 Up (120 min.)

Broadcast Date: October 9, 2007

Trailer: Link

Filmmaker: Michael Apted Bio | Interview

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Michael Apted

There aren't many pieces of work, especially in film, that have the patience or the longevity or the time to honor the drama of ordinary life; and after all, the drama of what we all have to go through — children, jobs, marriage, the things that touch us — is the big drama of life, far more so than the drama of movies and television.”

— Michael Apted

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Critical Acclaim

The Up series [is] perhaps the most original and innovative enterprise in the history of documentary film.”

— Richard Schickel, Time Magazine

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