70 Up (2026)

70 Up is the concluding chapter of the landmark British Up documentary series, returning to the lives of participants who were first filmed as seven-year-old children in the 1960s. Now around seventy, the participants reflect on the hopes, choices, relationships, losses, and unexpected turns that shaped their lives.

The project is both a personal time capsule and a record of social change, allowing viewers to see individual lives unfold across more than six decades. The final installment keeps the series' observational approach while offering a natural sense of closure to one of television's longest-running documentary experiments.

• Directed by Asif Kapadia, following the long-running work of Michael Apted.
• The series began in 1964 with fourteen British children and revisited participants every seven years.
• Bruce Balden, Peter Davies, Neil Hughes, Susan Sullivan, and other longtime participants return.
• It was produced by MultiStory Media and Lafcadia Productions.
• The 2026 installment is intended as the final chapter of the Up series.