Best of Enemies
# Buckley vs. Vidal. 2 Men. 10 Debates. Television Would Never Be the Same.
📜 Overview:
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?"
💵 Budget: USD
1,000,000
🌏 Languages Available:
English
📆 Date Released:
2015-07-31
⌚ Running Time:
87 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
7.2
Beloved Cast
Self
Gore Vidal
Self
William F. Buckley Jr.
Voice of William F. Buckley
Kelsey Grammer
Voice of Gore Vidal
John Lithgow
Self
Dick Cavett
Self
Christopher Hitchens
Self (archival)
Noam Chomsky
Self
Reid Buckley
Self
Andrew Sullivan
Self
Todd Gitlin
Self
Brooke Gladstone
Self (archival)
Paul Newman
Self (archival)
Arthur Miller
Self (archival)
Muhammad Ali
Self (archival)
Sam Donaldson
Self (archival)
Norman Mailer
Self
Matt Tyrnauer
Self (archival)
Godfrey Cambridge
Self
John McWhorter
Self
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Self (archival)
James J. Kilpatrick
Self (archival)
Richard J. Daley
Self (archival)
Everett Dirksen
Self
James Wolcott
Self (archival)
Woody Allen
