Tuesday, October 9, 9-11:30 p.m. ET
In one of documentary cinema's more remarkable enterprises, "49 Up" makes its U.S. broadcast premiere as the seventh in a series of films that has profiled the same group of English children every seven years since 1964.

The seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when a filmmaking team, inspired by the Jesuit maxim "Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man," interviewed a diverse group of seven-year-old children from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Director Michael Apted, a researcher for the original film, has returned to interview the "children" every seven years.

As Apted has tenaciously pursued the "Up"series, revisiting the children every seven years as they have grown up, navigating the divides between childhood dreams and adult reality, not all have participated in each succeeding film. Some have reacted against the series' intrusiveness. Others have embraced their roles. As "49 Up"revisits questions of love, marriage, career, class and prejudice - deftly intercutting footage from earlier films with contemporary interviews - it uncovers surprising ruminations about the "Up"series itself, as well as unexpected turns in individual lives.