Coming of age

Growing up filmed over years rather than months, which is the only honest way to do it. Up Series has been running since 1964, Hoop Dreams follows two Chicago teenagers for five years, and Minding the Gap began as skate footage and turned into something its own director had not seen coming.

• Up Series (1964-2019) ★★★
• Minding the Gap (2018) ★★★
• Hoop Dreams (1994) ★★★
• All This Panic (2016) ★★★
• A House Made of Splinters (2022) ★★★