Best of Enemies by Morgan Neville
7.20
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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Cast
Gore Vidal as Self
William F. Buckley Jr. as Self
Kelsey Grammer as Voice of William F. Buckley
John Lithgow as Voice of Gore Vidal
Dick Cavett as Self
Christopher Hitchens as Self
Noam Chomsky as Self (archival)
Reid Buckley as Self
Andrew Sullivan as Self
Todd Gitlin as Self
Brooke Gladstone as Self
Paul Newman as Self (archival)
Arthur Miller as Self (archival)
Muhammad Ali as Self (archival)
Sam Donaldson as Self (archival)
Norman Mailer as Self (archival)
Matt Tyrnauer as Self
Godfrey Cambridge as Self (archival)
John McWhorter as Self
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt as Self
James J. Kilpatrick as Self (archival)
Richard J. Daley as Self (archival)
Everett Dirksen as Self (archival)
James Wolcott as Self
Woody Allen as Self (archival)
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