Vietnam.A.Television.History.1983.Complete.13.episodes.Unedited.VHSrip.480p.2ch.x265

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Vietnam A Television History (1983) Complete 13 Episodes Unedited
video: 640x480 HEVC crf=22.00 preset=medium 468-1139Kbps average-631kbps 8-bit
audio: 2.0 stereo English HE-AAC 96Kbps
source: MPEG-4/Xvid x263 ~2224kbps - MP3 ~164kbps - 12.9GB
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185129/ 

This share is an x265/HE-AAC encode of the 13 unedited episodes from a VHSrip of the original 1983 broadcast of Vietnam A Television History from PBS.

The 2 main reasons to get this VHSrip share instead of the DVD version are:
1) The DVD set is completely missing 02.The.First.Vietnam.War and 13.Legacies
2) the DVDs have various edits to other episodes that appear to be censorship of harsh content (please see the Wiki quote below)

The source AVIs for this encode were modified in 2 ways:
1) The bottom edges are cropped by 0 to 6 pixels to remove VHS tracking distortion
2) The AVI source displayed interlacing so this encode had deinterlace=slower set

13 episodes - 25hours 49minutes 32seconds - 4,245,782,943bytes or 4.0GB
58m15s 01.Roots.Of.A.War.1945-1953
59m21s *02.The.First.Vietnam.War.(Non-DVD)
61m42s 03.Americas.Mandarin.1954-1963
61m36s 04.LBJ.Goes.To.War.1964-1965
61m29s 05.America.Takes.Charge.1965-1967
58m57s 06.Americas.Enemy.1954-1967
59m02s 07.Tet.1968
59m07s 08.Vietnamizing.The.War.1968-1973
59m11s 09.Cambodia.And.Laos
59m05s 10.Peace.Is.At.Hand.1968-1973
59m00s 11.Homefront.USA
58m54s 12.The.End.Of.The.Tunnel.1973-1975
59m01s *13.Legacies.(Non-DVD)
* - episodes 02 and 13 are completely missing from the DVD version

Wikipedia on the original broadcast version (this share) versus the edited DVD version:
In 1997 a re-edited version some 120 minutes shorter (a total of 660 minutes, as opposed to 780 minutes) was used for rebroadcast and excluded Episodes 2 ("The First Vietnam War") and 13 ("Legacies"). The editing was reportedly undertaken to remove outdated information and to create a more cohesive story for viewers. However, some viewers, who remembered the original 13-episode version, derogated the changes as "censorship" and believed that they could detect a "corrective" treatment of the material that involved cutting out politically objectionable scenes. There is no evidence that PBS executives edited the series for political purposes, but the release of the same shortened version on DVD in 2004, when presumably the full version could have been made available, has not been explained.

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