Every seven years documentary filmmaker Michael Apted has traced the lives of 14 British boys and girls from childhood to middle age, resulting in a life’s work of unparalleled drama
(CBS News) Imagine your real life experiences from the age of seven made into a series of documentaries. For a group of people in Britain there is no imagining — they’ve been watching their lives unfold on the screen for half-a-century, with the latest installment scheduled to run on PBS on October 14th. Their personal stories are our Cover Story, reported by Lee Cowan: An earlier version of this story was originally broadcast on January 6, 2013. It looks like any other group of kids in the early 1960s, but it wasn’t just a dance party. It was a sociological experiment for a British documentary called „Seven Up!“ The idea was to gather 7-year-olds from widely different backgrounds, and look at Britain’s class system through their eyes.
