Willing to give up your modern, interconnected lifestyle and experience life as it was in the American colonies? Producers of Colonial House, a PBS series that goes into production this June, are accepting online applications.

The reds of Nazi banners and congealed blood, "oranges of flame-throwers and of the explosions caused by kamikaze pilots" bring emotional immediacy to The Perilous Fight, a World War II documentary debuting on PBS stations tonight, writes a New York Times reviewer. "[I]t provides views of World War II that few besides those who actually fought have ever seen," recommends a Los Angeles Times critic.