Braveheart Blu-ray

[McCrutchy]

The submission from 1997 is for an Audio Descriptive version, where a voice narrates the action, so that probably accounts for the few minutes difference in running time. Since the theatrical version at 24 frames per second is 177 minutes, the PAL version at 25 fps would be 170 minutes, and the most recent submission is from 2008 for the Gibson commentary, which is listed at 170 minutes (i.e. a PAL DVD). For Blu-ray, there is no PAL speed-up for HD material, so the UK Blu-ray (which has not yet, and may not need to be, reclassified by the BBFC) should run 177 minutes. The original cut requested to gain a '15' was two seconds in length, so even the cut version would be 177 minutes long, but the UK has become much more liberal since 1995, especially with the '15' certificate, so I would expect to see it released uncut on Blu-ray at '15'.