Every week, Ultimate Movie Year looks back into the past to highlight the best film that came out that weekend.

"56 Up"
Released domestically Jan. 4, 2013
Directed by Michael Apted

Think about the course of your life. You've had good times and bad with memories, relationships, dreams, classes, jobs, homes, love, loss, and everything in-between.

Sometimes in times of trouble, we retreat to the past - our pasts - to remember when life was more comfortable, when someone or something we loved existed in its purest form, and we wonder where it all went wrong. Or perhaps something good has happened to you, and you think back to the path that led you to this place of happiness, recognizing the hardships that contributed to the journey. Imagine if you could do that in a physical form. Look back to pictures, journals, videos, and now even social media memories to see a moment that preserved who you were in the past, allowing you to reflect on who you are now. Did your life and dreams come true? Who are you if they didn't?

For an astonishing six decades, documentary filmmaker Michael Apted has been following the lives of 14 people from Britain since they were the age of seven in the remarkable Up docuseries (Paul Almond helmed the first film, "Seven Up!," in 1964, with Apted steering production for all subsequent installments). Every seven years, Apted checks in on the same people, selected from diverse socio-economic backgrounds, to see where their lives have taken them.