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As if PBS couldn't get any better, they've got a killer run of documentaries coming out this fall, including:

9. 56 Up (October 14): This is the latest installment in Michael Apted’s regular check-ins with a group of British men and women who began the Up series as seven-year-olds, and it marks the fiftieth year of the project. Apted says the process keeps surprising him. He thought this film would find its participants would be “very concerned with mortality,” but that instead, they’re still living full lives. And some of the choices they’ve made have paid off in unexpected ways. “I felt that the participants who’d invested energy and time and family life, in fact, seemed to have a more solid ground to themselves to deal with the rigors of living in the United Kingdom in 2012 and whatever,” he suggested. “As well as others who maybe had chosen more career and ambition and things like that. So I found that very rewarding, that the investment in family had paid off, and I had no idea that that was going to come out. And, you know, it brought a kind of optimism to the film in a sense.”