70 Up

""Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man.""

2026 2h 28m EN

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★8.0TMDB · 3

Documentary

Synopsis

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Across seven decades, British viewers watched 14 children grow into adults in films broadcast every seven years. In the series' final installment – with all surviving participants now in their seventies – what do their lives tell us about Britain?

“"Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man."”

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Cast

Nicholas Hitchon
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Tony Walker
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John Brisby
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Bruce Balden
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Charles Furneaux
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Lynn Johnson
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Suzanne Dewey
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Jacqueline Bassett
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Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Asif Kapadia
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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ERA

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Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "The Up Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 7

CAST

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Nicholas Hitchon and Tony Walker and John Brisby carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: ""Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man."".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt41858262 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 3 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Asif Kapadia directs. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.
2Part of the "The Up Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Nicholas Hitchon and Tony Walker and John Brisby carry the top of the cast.
5Marketing tagline: ""Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man."".
6IMDB entry: tt41858262 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 3 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime: 148 min · 2h 28m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: 70 Up (2026)

Part of

The Up Collection

The Up Series is a series of documentary films produced by Granada Television that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. The children were selected to represent the range of socio-economic backgrounds in Britain at that time, with the explicit assumption that each child's social class predetermines their future. Every seven years, the director, Michael Apted, films new material from as many of the fourteen as he can get to participate.