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Best of Enemies
Buckley vs. Vidal. 2 Men. 10 Debates. Television Would Never Be the Same.
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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?"
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Creators
Cast
Gore Vidal
actor
William F. Buckley Jr.
actor
Kelsey Grammer
actor
John Lithgow
actor
Dick Cavett
actor
Noam Chomsky
actor
Todd Gitlin
actor
Paul Newman
actor
Arthur Miller
actor
Muhammad Ali
actor
Sam Donaldson
actor
Norman Mailer
actor
Matt Tyrnauer
actor
Godfrey Cambridge
actor
