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Best of Enemies

Best of Enemies

(2015)

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?"

Featured Crew

  1. Director : Robert Gordon,Morgan Neville
  2. Producer : Robert Gordon,Morgan Neville
  3. Writer : Robert Gordon,Morgan Neville
  4. Editor : Aaron Wickenden,Eileen Meyer
  5. Cast : Gore Vidal,William F. Buckley Jr.,Kelsey Grammer,John Lithgow,Dick Cavett,Christopher Hitchens,Noam Chomsky,Reid Buckley,Andrew Sullivan,Todd Gitlin,Brooke Gladstone,Paul Newman,Arthur Miller,Muhammad Ali,Sam Donaldson,Norman Mailer,Matt Tyrnauer,Godfrey Cambridge,John McWhorter,Christopher Lehmann-Haupt,James J. Kilpatrick,Richard J. Daley,Everett Dirksen,James Wolcott,Woody Allen

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Original TitleBest of Enemies

Status Released

Release Information

  • 2015-07-31

Original LanguageEnglish

Runtime 01h 27m

Budget₹ 1000000

Homepagehttp://www.magpictures.com/bestofenemies/

Production CompaniesTremolo Productions,Media Ranch,Motto Pictures,Magnolia Pictures,Participant,ITVS,JustFilms / Ford Foundation

Genres

  • Documentary
  • History

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