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Gr 8 Up—Ken Burns has been busy. The award-winning filmmaker's seven-part television series, The Roosevelts, recently premiered on PBS, and he has just released an app. The app is both a visual time line of American history and a thematic compilation of clips from his documentaries, which have been praised for their wide-angle treatments incorporating interviews and archival photos and videos.The time line is a string of discs featuring images from the documentaries, covering aspects of our nation's history from 1619 to the present. Each disc is a link to a short clip from one of Burns's feature-length films or series. Viewers can travel the time line through the centuries, hop f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More