Editing Michael Apted (section)

===Documentary===
In addition to the [[Up (film series)|''Up'' series]], Apted made other documentaries, including ''[[Bring On the Night (film)|Bring On the Night]]'', a feature-length concert film about the making of [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]'s [[The Dream of the Blue Turtles|first solo album]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Screen: Sting in 'Bring on the Night' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/08/movies/screen-sting-in-bring-on-the-night.html |first=Janet |last=Maslin |page=C12 |date=8 November 1985 |access-date=9 January 2021 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> He directed the documentary ''The Long Way Home'', which was released in 1989. It chronicled the UK, US and USSR adventures of [[Boris Grebenshchikov]], the first Soviet [[underground musician]] allowed to record in the West.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BzwKfkQS1QwC&pg=PT348 |title=Annie Lennox: The Biography |publisher=Omnibus Press |date=16 December 2009 |last=Ellis |first=Lucy |isbn=9780857121141}}</ref>

Before the making of ''[[Thunderheart]]'', Apted made the documentary ''[[Incident at Oglala]]'' about [[Leonard Peltier]]. ''Incident at Oglala'' then informed ''Thunderheart'' in the casting of actors for the fiction film.<ref>.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/incident-at-oglala-the-leonard-peltier-story-98420/ |title=Incident at Ogala: The Leonard Peltier Story |date=26 June 1992 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref>

In 1997, he explored the creative process in ''[[Inspirations (film)|Inspirations]]'' through candid discussion with seven artists from diverse media, including [[David Bowie]], [[Louise Lecavalier]] and [[Roy Lichtenstein]] among others.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/4008/inspirations/ |title=Inspirations |publisher=DVDTalk.com |access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref>

In a departure from his earlier work, from 1992 to 1994, Apted ventured into China's rapidly changing popular culture. In a project backed by [[Trudie Styler]], Apted directed ''[[Moving the Mountain (1994 film)|Moving the Mountain]]'', a feature documentary which probed the origins of the [[1989 protests in Tiananmen Square]] and the consequences of the movement in the lives of several of the movement's student leaders.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/26/movies/film-review-moving-mountain-upheaval-china-real-recollections-false-flashbacks.html |title=Film Review:Moving the Mountain: Upheaval in China |work=The New York Times |date=26 April 1995 |access-date=9 January 2021 |last1=Maslin |first1=Janet}}</ref>

In 2006, Apted co-directed ''The Official Film of the [[2006 FIFA World Cup]]'', narrated by [[Pierce Brosnan]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Film producer lists at Byron |url=https://www.pressreader.com/australia/the-sunday-telegraph-sydney/20180428/283300343163128 |date=29 April 2018 |access-date=9 January 2020 |newspaper=The Sunday Telegraph |location=Sydney}}</ref>

Apted was the collaborator and subject of the documentary: ''Michael Apted – Visions on Film'', by artist and filmmaker [[Melinda Camber Porter]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://melindacamberporter.com/gallery/series/journalism/1055/ |title=Michael Apted, English director |publisher=MelindaCamberPorter.com |access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref>