Best of Enemies (2015)

Story

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers, and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, "What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?"

Synopsis from TMDB.

Official Trailer

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• Best of Enemies Official Trailer 1 (2015) - Documentary HD (opens YouTube)

Cast

• Gore Vidal Self
• William F. Buckley Jr. Self
• Kelsey Grammer Voice of William F. Buckley
• John Lithgow Voice of Gore Vidal
• Dick Cavett Self
• Christopher Hitchens Self
• Noam Chomsky Self (archival)
• R Reid Buckley Self
• Andrew Sullivan Self
• T Todd Gitlin Self
• B Brooke Gladstone Self
• Paul Newman Self (archival)
• Arthur Miller Self (archival)
• Muhammad Ali Self (archival)
• Sam Donaldson Self (archival)
• Norman Mailer Self (archival)
• Matt Tyrnauer Self
• Godfrey Cambridge Self (archival)