Biography: Michael Apted |
Receiving his early education at City of London School, Michael Apted went on to study Law at Cambridge University. By the age of 22, however, he was gainfully employed as a director at the BBC, laboring away on the popular soap opera Coronation... more
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
Tags: Children's Fantasy Fantasy Adventure Fantasy Family
Length: min
Upon returning to Narnia to join Prince Caspian for a voyage on the majestic royal vessel known as The Dawn Treader, Lucy, Edmund, and their cousin Eustace encounter merfolk, dragons, dwarves, and a wandering band of lost warriors. As the edge of the...
Cast: Michael Apted
Tags: Sports Sports & Recreation
Length: 100min
Acclaimed director Michael Apted (Nell and The World Is Not Enough) explores the social impact and transformative power of soccer by juxtaposing footage from the 2006 World Cup matches with deeply personal stories of how a simple sport helped six...
Tags: Culture & Society Sociology
Length: 132min
Michael Apted's documentary Married in America 2 follows up on the nine soon-to-be-wedded couples he interviewed five years previously for the first film in this ongoing series. He revisits each of the couples, quizzing them about how married life...
Tags: Biography Family & Personal Relationships Culture & Society Interpersonal Relationships Sociology
Length: 135min
Filmmaker Michael Apted returns to the director's chair to catch up with the subjects he has been following since the 1963 telefilm 7 Up with this sequel to 1999's 42 Up. In the seventh installment of the long-running documentary series, Apted...
Cast: Albert Finney Michael Gambon
Tags: Historical Film Political Drama
Length: 116min
One man's role in the long battle to outlaw slavery in the United Kingdom sets the stage for this historical drama from director Michael Apted. In 1784, 21-year-old William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) was elected to the British House of Commons, and...
Cast: Jennifer Lopez Juliette Lewis
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 116min
A Cinderella story turns into a nightmare when a former waitress' perfect marriage gives way to adultery and physical abuse in this combination of domestic drama and revenge hriller. Motherless young woman Slim (Jennifer Lopez) works in a San...
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Cast: Judi Dench Sophie Marceau Pierce Brosnan
Tags: Spy Film Action Glamorized Spy Film
Length: 125min
James Bond, the world's greatest secret agent, is sent once more into the breach in the name of Queen, Country, and a dry martini. In the 19th Bond adventure, 007 (Pierce Brosnan) must resolve a potentially deadly power struggle between two unstable...
Cast: John Barry Kate Winslet Tom Stoppard
Tags: Spy Film War War Romance War Spy Film
Length: 117min
The true story of a major breakthrough in intelligence technology created during World War II provides the backdrop for this blend of mystery, romance, and espionage, based on the novel by Robert Harris. Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) is a gifted...
Tags: Science & Technology Biography
Length: 110min
Director Michael Apted's Inspirations (1997), which explored the nature of creative talent, laid the groundwork for this film in which he investigates scientific brilliance. Apted interviews seven noted figures from divergent fields, including elderly...
Tags: Biography Culture & Society Sociology
Length: 135min
In 1964, England's Granada Television produced a documentary called 7 Up, in which 14 seven-year-old British children from a wide variety of social and economic backgrounds were interviewed about their ideas and opinions on the adult world. In 1971,...
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