What series of documentary films directed by Michael Apted follow the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old?
"the Jesuit motto ""Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man."" The series looks at the lives of this sample of British people over the years; the latest instalment, ""56 Up"", was produced in 2012. It won a Peabody Award in 2012 ""for its creator’s patience and its subjects’ humanity."" During his seven-year stay at Granada, Apted also directed a number of episodes of ""Coronation Street,"" then written by Jack Rosenthal. Apted and Rosenthal went on to collaborate on a number of popular television and film projects including the pilot episodes for ""The"
"to what had been shown in the previous six years of the series; they were essentially clip shows. Child of Our Time Child of Our Time is a documentary commissioned by the BBC, co-produced with the Open University and presented by Robert Winston. It follows the lives of 25 children, born at the beginning of the 21st century, as they grow from infancy, through childhood, and on to becoming young adults. The aim of the series is to build up a coherent and scientifically accurate picture of how the genes and the environment of growing children interact to make a"
"Child of Our Time Child of Our Time is a documentary commissioned by the BBC, co-produced with the Open University and presented by Robert Winston. It follows the lives of 25 children, born at the beginning of the 21st century, as they grow from infancy, through childhood, and on to becoming young adults. The aim of the series is to build up a coherent and scientifically accurate picture of how the genes and the environment of growing children interact to make a fully formed adult. A large portion of the series is made up of experiments designed to examine these"
"to 18, worked together under their supervision along with several other industry professionals to make a handful of short films each year. He was as proud of this new enterprise as of his finest films; he saw it as his own way of passing on the torch of the great British documentary tradition to the next generation of filmmakers. The Abingdon Film Unit itself has gained significant press, owing to films such as ""Gravel & Stones"" (2007), a documentary which focuses on the impact of disability on people in Cambodia, a country that, after thirty years of war, has one"
"Tony Walker. The participants were chosen in an attempt to represent different social classes in Britain in the 1960s. Apted states in the commentary track of the ""42 Up"" DVD that he was asked to find children at the extremes. Because the show was not originally intended to become a repeating series, no long-term contract was signed with the participants. The interviews since ""Seven Up!"" have been voluntary, although the participants have been paid an unknown sum for their appearance in each film, as well as equal parts of any prize the film may win, says Apted. Each subject is"
"Seven Ages Seven Ages is a historical documentary series that was produced by Araby Productions, in association with The O'Reilly Foundation, for RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland. It charts the birth, growth and development of the Irish state since its foundation in 1921. The series was produced and directed by Seán Ó Mórdha, and the music was composed by Bill Whelan. It was first broadcast in 2000. The series consists of seven 55-minute episodes, each dealing with a different decade, beginning with independence in 1921. The episodes do not, however, stick rigidly to their particular decade in order to avoid"
"Seven Ages Seven Ages is a historical documentary series that was produced by Araby Productions, in association with The O'Reilly Foundation, for RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland. It charts the birth, growth and development of the Irish state since its foundation in 1921. The series was produced and directed by Seán Ó Mórdha, and the music was composed by Bill Whelan. It was first broadcast in 2000. The series consists of seven 55-minute episodes, each dealing with a different decade, beginning with independence in 1921. The episodes do not, however, stick rigidly to their particular decade in order to avoid"
"Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? is a 1977 documentary film about Dorothy and Bob DeBolt, an American couple who have adopted 14 children, some of whom are severely disabled war orphans (in addition to raising Dorothy's five biological children and Bob's biological daughter). VHS and DVD releases use the shortened title Who Are the DeBolts? The film was narrated by Henry Winkler, who also served as executive producer, and won an Academy Award for Best Feature-length Documentary in 1978, as well as the"
"Born in the USSR: 21 Up Born in the USSR: 21 Up is a 2005 British documentary, directed by Sergei Miroshnichenko. Following in the tradition of the original UK ""Up Series"", this documentary revisits a group of Soviet Union-born children at seven-year intervals to track their development against a backdrop of social and political change. Following the success of the UK original, this film looks at life for a group of young people from the former Soviet Union. The adults here, all introduced to viewers at the age of seven and seen again at 14, were born in a country"
"Consenting Adults (2007 film) Consenting Adults is a 2007 BBC Four television dramatisation of the events of the Wolfenden committee, whose report led to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Britain. Set in the 1950s, the film depicts social attitudes towards homosexuality in Britain at that time, largely focusing on the committee's chair, John Wolfenden, and his own homosexual son Jeremy. The film was commissioned as part of a season of programming marking the 40th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales in 1967. Similar legislation came into force in Scotland and Northern Ireland in 1981 and 1982"
"children to a factory or farm to experience life as a worker. A fourth and fifth series were announced on CBBC's 'Be on a Show' website in February 2014. These took place in Africa and the UK. The fourth series later aired in December 2014, and the fifth series began in October 2015. A sixth series was announced in May 2016 and a seventh series began airing from 17 April - 15 May 2017. The series was originally broadcast on BBC one for the first series until the BBC stopped children's broadcasting on BBC one. The show then moved to"
"adult children of lesbian and gay parents in the United Kingdom, starting back in the late 1960s"". The half-hour documentary explores ""themes of school, gender, sexuality, prejudice, and what the word family means [to] children of lesbian and gay parents in the United Kingdom, aged 12 to 35"". Webb-Ingall made the film with the dual purpose of investigating the ""personal and political history of kids with LGBT parents [and giving] himself a lesson in the film theory and techniques of queer filmmakers of the 70s, 80s and 90s"". This stylistic decision was not for nostalgic purposes, but to instead ""embed"
"Children of the Damned Children of the Damned is a 1964 British black-and-white science fiction horror film, a thematic sequel to 1960's ""Village of the Damned"", which concerns a group of children with similar psi-powers to those in the earlier film. The film enables an interpretation of the children as being a good and more pure form of human being than evil and alien. Six children are identified by a team of UNESCO researchers investigating child development. The children have extraordinary powers of intellect and are all able to complete a difficult brick puzzle in exactly the same amount of"
"improve. With excitement and determination, Gesho has little doubt that he will succeed, and with his infectious optimism, it is sure to carry him a long way. Children of Jerusalem Children of Jerusalem is a series of 7 documentary films directed by Beverly Shaffer, a Canadian filmmaker, between 1991 and 1996. The series show the life in Jerusalem from the distinct points of view of the municipality's children of various cultural, economic, social and religious backgrounds. ""Children of Jerusalem: Yehuda"" focuses on the country of Israel and its capital city from the point of view of a pre-teen Hasidic boy"
"won an Oscar in 1955 for Documentary Short Subject. The Academy Film Archive preserved ""Thursday's Children"" in 2005. Thursday's Children Thursday's Children is a 1954 British short documentary film directed by Guy Brenton and Lindsay Anderson about The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent, UK. The film is nearly silent, apart from music and narration. It focuses on the faces and gestures of the little boys and girls. As a residential school teaching lip reading, rather than a sign language, it features methods and goals not now used, and notes that only one child in three will achieve"
"Serious (TV series) Serious is an observational documentary series made by the BBC and broadcast as part of their children's programming. It encompasses ""Serious Jungle"" (2002), ""Serious Desert"" (2003), ""Serious Arctic"" (2005), ""Serious Amazon"" (2006), ""Serious Andes"" (2007), ""Serious Ocean"" (2008/09) and ""Serious Explorers"" (2011). ""Serious Ocean"" consisted of ten 30-minute episodes, while each previous series was six 30-minute episodes. In each series a group of eight 12- to 15-year-olds embark on an expedition to an extreme part of the world, in order to help wildlife or assist in environmental projects. The programmes have won numerous awards, among them honours"
"schools all over Britain, as well as Canada, Australia and the United States. The timeframe of the film is somewhat confusing, giving a surreal feeling to the events portrayed. The film was directed by John Mackenzie, written by Neville Smith and produced by John Arnold and Leon Clore. ""Apaches"" is now one of the most notorious public information films of all time. The film, which dovetails the narrative conventions of the western with PIFs, follows the misadventures of a group of six young children (Kim, Sharon, Michael, Danny, Tom and Robert) in a rural British village who enjoy playing on"
"Scenes from Under Childhood Scenes from Under Childhood is a series of 16mm film in four independent sections by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced between 1967 and 1970. All four sections are silent, though Brakhage made a version with sound available for the first section. The film is often described as an attempt by Brakhage to visualize how his children saw the world. In a 2008 ""Village Voice"" review, critic J. Hoberman wrote described the film as a ""glorious, two-hour plus romantic epic."" In a 1992 poll for the British film magazine ""Sight & Sound"", experimental filmmaker Michael"
"three times a week in 1977 and repeated in 1978. Seven hundred viewing groups were set up around England, not confined to childminders or pre-school workers. The BBC published a supporting handbook, which was subsidised by the Health Education Council and distributed free by social-services departments to all registered childminders throughout the country. The NCC was intimately involved in the production of the series and the handbook. In the final programme, the idea that viewing groups or local childminders might unite led to the foundation of the National Childminding Association in Birmingham in 1977. In May 1977, the first Child"
"to selected audiences when Miroshnichenko visited the United States in April 2007. In 2008 the film became a winner of three awards in Russian Cinematograph: Nika, Zolotoi Orel and Stalker. Born in the USSR: 21 Up Born in the USSR: 21 Up is a 2005 British documentary, directed by Sergei Miroshnichenko. Following in the tradition of the original UK ""Up Series"", this documentary revisits a group of Soviet Union-born children at seven-year intervals to track their development against a backdrop of social and political change. Following the success of the UK original, this film looks at life for a group"
"coverage of the Rochdale by-election, 1958, the first election to be covered on television in Britain. Granada's coverage was broad in scope, and it also broadcast two candidate debates. Over 50 years later, Granada Studios hosted the first General Election debate among the leaders of the three main political parties. Granada's boldness was seen in ambitious documentaries such as ""Seven Up!,"" which premièred in 1964. The programme was a social experiment which followed the lives of 14 British children aged seven. It tracked their lives at seven-year intervals to discover whether their hopes and aspirations had been achieved. The documentary"
"Thursday's Children Thursday's Children is a 1954 British short documentary film directed by Guy Brenton and Lindsay Anderson about The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent, UK. The film is nearly silent, apart from music and narration. It focuses on the faces and gestures of the little boys and girls. As a residential school teaching lip reading, rather than a sign language, it features methods and goals not now used, and notes that only one child in three will achieve true speech. Filmmakers Lindsay Anderson and Guy Brenton were unable to gain distribution for the film until it"
"Children's Emergency Children's Emergency is a British television documentary series. It follows the Children's Acute Transport Service, which is dedicated to taking critically ill children to specialist paediatric hospitals. Eight episodes were produced by September Films for the BBC, and it was first aired on BBC One between 4 May and 23 June 2010. The documentary follow the mobile teams as they deal with a range of paediatric mobile emergencies, including a 14-year-old who has had a heart attack, a baby boy who needs emergency heart surgery, a seven-year-old who has a seizure, and a 10-year-old girl who needs to"
"move hospitals for a heart transplant. Children's Emergency Children's Emergency is a British television documentary series. It follows the Children's Acute Transport Service, which is dedicated to taking critically ill children to specialist paediatric hospitals. Eight episodes were produced by September Films for the BBC, and it was first aired on BBC One between 4 May and 23 June 2010. The documentary follow the mobile teams as they deal with a range of paediatric mobile emergencies, including a 14-year-old who has had a heart attack, a baby boy who needs emergency heart surgery, a seven-year-old who has a seizure, and"
"Seven Ages of Britain (2010 TV series) Seven Ages of Britain is a BBC television documentary series written and presented by David Dimbleby. The seven part series was first aired on Sunday nights at 9:00pm on BBC One starting on 31 January 2010. The series covers the history of Britain's greatest art and artefacts over the past 2000 years. Each episode covers a different period in British history. In Australia, all seven episodes aired on ABC1 each Tuesday at 8:30pm from 7 September 2010. Originally the series was to air in late 2009, but was later re-scheduled to early 2010."
"between 1930 and 1970, rare recordings, and interviews with more than a dozen people who reflect on their unconventional childhoods and being the unwitting subjects in an ambitious social and ideological experiment. Children of the Sun (2007 film) Children of the Sun () is a 2007 documentary feature film about the Israeli kibbutz directed by Ran Tal. It won the Best Documentary and Best Editing Awards at the 2007 Jerusalem Film Festival, and Best Documentary at the 2008 Ophir Awards. Tal, who was himself born on Kibbutz Beit HaShita, examines the ""Children of the Sun"" - the first generation of"
"Generation Gifted Generation Gifted is a British documentary television series that was first broadcast on BBC Two between 14 and 15 February 2018. The six-part series takes a unique look at social mobility and the factors which affect it in Britain today, by filming with six highly promising children, who are all from families on low incomes. Transmitting two 60 minute episodes each year from 2018, the series will explore the ""challenges facing these children, as they progress from ages 13 to 16 and sit their GCSEs. Whether they’re talented mathematicians, show a flair for literature or are flourishing artists,"
"film focuses on Sam facing up to the new world he realizes it also comes with new problems and new challenges that he must face that he knows will require old friends to help him survive new dangers. It was released on 29 August 2016. Kidulthood (film series) Kidulthood is a series of British drama films. The film series began in 2006 with ""Kidulthood"", which was followed by the sequels ""Adulthood"" and ""Brotherhood"". The series focuses on the lives of several teenagers in Ladbroke Grove and Latimer Road area of inner west London. The film series has earned over £7"
"The Boys from Baghdad High The Boys from Baghdad High, also known as Baghdad High, is a British-American-French television documentary film. It was first shown in the United Kingdom at the 2007 Sheffield Doc/Fest, before airing on BBC Two on 8 January 2008. It also aired in many other countries including France, Australia, the United States, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands. It documents the lives of four Iraqi schoolboys of different religious or ethnic backgrounds over the course of one year in the form of a video diary. The documentary was filmed by the boys themselves, who were given video"
"Taking Liberties (film) Taking Liberties (also known as Taking Liberties Since 1997) is a British documentary film about the erosion of civil liberties in the United Kingdom and increase of surveillance under the government of Tony Blair. It was released in the UK on 8 June 2007. The director, Chris Atkins, said on 1 May that he wanted to expose ""the Orwellian state"" that now threatened Britain as a result of Mr Blair's policies. There is also an accompanying book. The film starts with three coaches of peace protestors on the way to the RAF Base in Fairford, Gloucestershire on"
"puppet TV series teaching children to read using the phonics approach. ""Jolly Phonics"" won the “Teachers Choice” award at the US Education Media Awards in 1997. He was also both writer and director of a number of BBC schools TV programmes, including ""Words and Pictures"", ""You & Me"", and ""Watch"". He directed documentary TV programmes for what was then Central Television in the UK including: Directing ""Parents and Teenagers"" an eight-part series dealing with teenage/parental relationships which used filmed documentary and studio drama, and directing/writing ""England Their England"", a series of three 25-minute documentaries on film about an NSPCC nursery,"
"Children of Jerusalem Children of Jerusalem is a series of 7 documentary films directed by Beverly Shaffer, a Canadian filmmaker, between 1991 and 1996. The series show the life in Jerusalem from the distinct points of view of the municipality's children of various cultural, economic, social and religious backgrounds. ""Children of Jerusalem: Yehuda"" focuses on the country of Israel and its capital city from the point of view of a pre-teen Hasidic boy as he gets ready to observe the religious holiday of Sukkot. At one point in the film the ten-year-old boy explains that his name Yehuda stands for"
"I Am Eleven I Am Eleven is a 2012 Australian documentary film by Geneviève Bailey, who travelled through 15 countries over a period of six years to explore the lives of 11-year-olds in different environments. The countries that the children are from include Thailand, England, Bulgaria, Japan and Czech Republic. The film has been compared with the ""7 Up"" documentary series and won awards in the USA, Australia, Brazil, France and Spain. Following the completion of a Bachelor Of Creative Arts Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University in 2003, Bailey completed a series of short films,"