Best of Enemies

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Best of Enemies is a 2015 documentary and history movie directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville. It stars Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley Jr. and Kelsey Grammer. It runs 1h 27m. TMDB users rate it 7.2 out of 10. Streaming in the US on Netflix and Prime Video.

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?"