Vietnam: A Television History

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

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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 Summary:

Vietnam: A Television History (1983) is a 13-part American documentary and television mini-series about the Vietnam War (1955-1975) from the perspective of the United States. It was produced for public television by WGBH-TV in Boston and was originally broadcast on PBS between October 4 and December 20, 1983. Eleven of the 13 episodes were rebroadcast (2 and 13 were dropped) as part of the series American Experience from May 26 to July 28, 1997. It was the most successful documentary produced by PBS up to the time of initial broadcast.



Wikipedia on the original broadcast version (this share) versus the edited DVD version:

When PBS elected to rebroadcast Vietnam: A Television History as part of its American Experience series in 1997, a re-edited version some 120 minutes shorter (a total of 660 minutes, as opposed to 780 minutes) was used, including the exclusion of Episodes 2 ("The First Vietnam War") and 13 ("Legacies") in their entirety. 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. In particular, an interview of a French colonel discussing the end of the siege at Dien Bien Phu and referring to the Viet Minh as "Red Termites" was missed. Another interview of a man recalling a popular expression of that time and place in which the native plantation workers were termed "fertilizer" because so many died and were buried beneath the trees among which they toiled, was gone. Material depicting the British decision to rearm the defeated Japanese soldiers at the end of World War II, so as to use them against the Vietnamese, was also removed. 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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