Independent Lens

Season 18, Episode 1

Episode Title: Best of Enemies

Air Date: 2016-10-02

Overview:

Best of Enemies captures the legendary 1968 debates between two famed intellectuals and ideological opposites: leftist Gore Vidal and neoconservative William F. Buckley. Their televised sparring shaped a new era of public discourse in the media, marking the moment TV’s political ambition shifted from narrative to spectacle.