 
		Best of Enemies
Buckley vs. Vidal. 2 Men. 10 Debates. Television Would Never Be the Same.
2015 en 87 minutes
Rating: 7.171
Plot
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
Self
 
	William F. Buckley Jr.
Self
 
	Kelsey Grammer
Voice of William F. Buckley
 
	John Lithgow
Voice of Gore Vidal
 
	Dick Cavett
Self
 
	Christopher Hitchens
Self
 
	Noam Chomsky
Self (archival)
 
	Reid Buckley
Self
 
	Andrew Sullivan
Self
 
	Todd Gitlin
Self
 
	Brooke Gladstone
Self
 
	Paul Newman
Self (archival)
 
	Arthur Miller
Self (archival)
 
	Muhammad Ali
Self (archival)
 
	Sam Donaldson
Self (archival)
 
	Norman Mailer
Self (archival)
 
	Matt Tyrnauer
Self
 
	Godfrey Cambridge
Self (archival)
 
	John McWhorter
Self
 
	Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Self
 
	James J. Kilpatrick
Self (archival)
 
	Richard J. Daley
Self (archival)
 
	Everett Dirksen
Self (archival)
 
	James Wolcott
Self
 
	Woody Allen
Self (archival)
 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		