21 Up South Africa: Mandela's Children

The "7 Up" series that has followed British children from age 7 to age 49 has been exported (so to speak) around the world. This production from director Angus Gibson checks in with a group of children -- rich and poor, black, white and "mixed race," from township slums to apartheid-era mansions to the bushveldt -- who were first profiled at age 7 in 1992. In the intervening years (in which AIDS claimed the lives of three of these children) is a sketch of the social history of South Africa over the past two decades. Features an interview with "49 Up" director Michael Apted and a stills gallery.