Jonathan Dimbleby reports on how the BBC prepared to report from the front line during World War II.

Jonathan Dimbleby reveals how the BBC prepared for the first broadcast war and fought off government attempts to control it.

The story of the adolescents who joined the Hitler Youth, which became a political instrument of the Nazi Party; an examination of how Adolf Hitler built a relationship with young people, supplanting parents, family, school, and church.

Six years in the making, Ken Burns' seven-part documentary series chronicles the horrifying historical impact of World War II from an American perspective by focusing on the personal stories of private citizens from four American towns: Waterbury, Conn., Mobile, Ala., Sacramento, Calif., and Luverne, Minn. Together, these four communities serve as a tapestry of the ordeal Americans went through during the four years of the war, as witnesses share their own vivid and often harrowing accounts of how the war dramatically altered their own lives as well as those of their friends and neighbors.

This historical drama explores the fight for an independent Texas that occurred following the conclusion of the Battle of the Alamo. Gen. Sam Houston leads a ragtag group of Texas Rangers into battle against Mexican Gen. Santa Anna. Houston and the Rangers fight seemingly insurmountable odds to overtake the opponent and gain independence. The series comes from the same team behind Emmy-winning miniseries "Hatfields & McCoys" and, like that program, features Emmy nominee Bill Paxton, who plays Houston, in a prominent role.

History enthusiast Harald Sandner spends 25 years tracing Adolf Hitler's itinerary from childhood to his rise as leader of Nazi Germany and death.