Best of Enemies

The documentary focuses on a series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two large public intellectual figures: the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. These explosive encounters and quite controversial came to make a modern era of public discourse in the media, marking a great moment in contemporary American media landscape. Explores the intertwined biographies of these two great thinkers and luxuriates in the language, causing reflection on the influence of television in political discourse in our democracy today.