Age 7 in America (1991)

Directed by

Phil Joanou

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

48 min

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a diverse group of seven year old children across the United States. It captures their lives, backgrounds, and hopes at a single point in time.

reflectiveobservationalintimatepoignantthoughtfulstraightforwardslow-paced

What happens

Age 7 in America is a 1991 American documentary film produced by Michael Apted, co-produced by Vicky Bippart, directed by Phil Joanou, and narrated by Meryl Streep. It details the lives of 7-year-old Americans from across the continental United States, of varying social classes and ethnicities. Patterned after the Up series of the United Kingdom, further installments of the series were made, showing the children at age 14, and again at 21. These installments are titled 14 Up in America (1998, also directed by Joanou and produced by Vicky Bippart) and 21 Up in America (2006, directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn and produced by Vicky Bippart). CBS Television and Granada Television, London, UK, won a Peabody Award in 1992 for Age 7 in America. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Inside Out: Portraits of Children (1997)
• Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers (1991)
• Thank You and Good Night (1991)
• Baraka (1992)
• Promises (2001)
• Talk 16 (1991)
• The Bend in the River (2025)
• The Mark of the Maker (1991)