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Best of Enemies

Best of Enemies

IMDB:

7.2
Best of Enemies

Released

7/31/2015

Duration

1h 27m

Genre

Documentary, History

Country

United States of America

Cast

Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley Jr., Kelsey Grammer

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?"

Cast

Gore Vidal

Self

Gore Vidal

William F. Buckley Jr.

Self

William F. Buckley Jr.

Kelsey Grammer

Voice of William F. Buckley

Kelsey Grammer

John Lithgow

Voice of Gore Vidal

John Lithgow

Dick Cavett

Self

Dick Cavett

Christopher Hitchens

Self

Christopher Hitchens

Noam Chomsky

Self (archival)

Noam Chomsky

Reid Buckley

Self

Reid Buckley

Andrew Sullivan

Self

Andrew Sullivan

Todd Gitlin

Self

Todd Gitlin

Brooke Gladstone

Self

Brooke Gladstone

Paul Newman

Self (archival)

Paul Newman

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