What series of documentary films directed by Michael Apted follow the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old?
Michael Apted worked as a researcher. One of his first projects at Granada would become his best known: the "Up Series", which began in 1964 as a profile of fourteen seven-year-old children for the current affairs series World In Action. As a researcher and assistant to Canadian director Paul Almond, Apted was involved in selecting the children. Though it began as a one-shot documentary, the series has become an institution, revisiting the subjects every seven years, with Apted directing the later episodes in the series. It follows Apted's thesis that the British class system remains largely in place, and is premised on
Michael Apted 1997, he explored the creative process in "Inspirations" through candid discussion with seven artists from diverse media, including music, painting, dance, sculpture, and architecture. In a departure from his earlier work, from 1992 to 1994, Apted ventured into China's rapidly changing popular culture. In a project backed by Trudie Styler, Apted directed "Moving the Mountain", a feature documentary which probed the origins of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square and the consequences of the movement in the lives of several of the movement's student leaders. In 2006, Apted directed "The Official Film of the 2006 FIFA World Cup", narrated by