The.Civil.War.1990.720p.10bit.BluRay.x265-budgetbits
TV mini-series, 1990, 4k restoration for Blu-ray release in 2015

Links
Docuwiki - Link
Wikipedia - Link
PBS website - Link

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GENERAL INFO
Genre
Documentary

Plot
A comprehensive survey of the American Civil War.

This highly acclaimed mini-series traces the course of the U.S. Civil War from the abolitionist movement through all the major battles to the death of President Lincoln and the beginnings of Reconstruction. The story is mostly told in the words of the participants themselves, through their diaries and letters. Visuals are usually still photographs and illustrations of the time, and the soundtrack is likewise made up of war-era tunes played on period instruments. Several modern-day historians offer periodic comment and insight on the war's causes and events.


Encoding info
Encoded from BluRay remux (The.Civil.War.S01.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-EPSiLON) with HandBrake 1.3.1, tweaked slower preset, x265, 10 bit, CRF 28, nlmeans medium, sao/strong-intra-smoothing/rect disabled.

Intro and outro ~56 second corporate sponsorship blurbs cut.

Subtitles from upload to subscene.com by Bitofinger

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Commentary tracks by Ken Burns do not cover entire each episode. If you want to watch just the segments with commentary, you can play the .edl with mpv, or play the .m3u in VLC. Or you can manually skip through using these time codes of commentary segments:

## Episode 1
-8:19.6
12:32.438-17:02.739
42:43.855-47:18.779
57:06.894-61:58.536
64:04.853-69:37.084
72:32.395-82:00.123
91:08.114-95:03.549

## Episode 2
14:10.739-19:08.5
27:42.001-43:27.9
47:09.584-51:13.67

## Episode 3
5:43.748-24:25.5
27:48.744-30:17.2
44:59.006-62:25.607

## Episode 4
8:21.932-17:58
31:34.3-37:50.6
41:43.8-51:23

## Episode 5
4:26.4-7:45.4
16:30.343-25:35.529
34:41.432-51:57.536
86:44-91:10.203

## Episode 6
-5:35.37
6:33.058-20:56.292
49:50.532-56:22.2

## Episode 7
14:10.57-19:04
48:14.5-54:19.4
61:19.614-67:31.042

## Episode 8
7:15-16:03.151
23:49.58-27:57.3
29:13.463-46:40.2
49:26.893-64:15.206

## Episode 9
11:35.146-25:59.93
30:41.1-55:27.952

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POSTER


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SCREENSHOTS
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