The "7 Up" film series are a group of television documentaries that record the lives of fourteen Brits every seven years over the course of their lives. The series began in 1964 with "Seven Up!" (1964) and the latest installment, "49 Up," was shown on British television in 2005. The premise of the series was that the class of the children in the first documentary would determine the course of the lives. The British director, Michael Apted, who directed such movies as "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980), "Gorillas in the Mist" (1988), and the James Bond film "The World Is Not Enough" (1999), has been involved with the series since it began, starting off as a researcher on the first documentary and becoming director and producer for the subsequent documentaries.
The series has been very influential with many similar projects started in other countries including Australia, Japan, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States.
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