Jul 31, 2015
87 min
Full-HD

Best of Enemies (2015)

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?"

Category

Documentary History

Country

United States of America

Companies

Tremolo Productions Media Ranch Motto Pictures Magnolia Pictures Participant ITVS JustFilms / Ford Foundation

Gore Vidal

Self

William F. Buckley Jr.

Self

Kelsey Grammer

Self

John Lithgow

Self

Dick Cavett

Self

Christopher Hitchens

Self

Noam Chomsky

Self

Recommended For You

Comedy
2015
Movie

Tangerine

Tangerine

6.9
2015

It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.

Documentary
2014
Movie

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

7.2
2014

A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.

Genre : Documentary

Documentary
1974
Movie

Hearts and Minds

Hearts and Minds

7.7
1974

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.

Genre : Documentary

Thriller
2019
Movie

Perfect

Perfect

4.5
2019

A young man with a violent past enters a mysterious clinic where the patients wildly transform their bodies and minds using genetic engineering.

Genre : Thriller

Comedy
2015
Movie

Unexpected

Unexpected

5.7
2015

An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.

Documentary
2011
Movie

The Real Rocky

The Real Rocky

5.9
2011

Chuck Wepner is a liquor salesman from Bayonne, N.J., who drives a Cadillac with “Champ” vanity plates. A former New Jersey State Heavyweight Boxing Champion, he took abuse from Sonny Liston, got his nose broken by Muhammad Ali, and inspired Sylvester Stallone to write “Rocky” which won three Academy Awards. Wepner was left out of the “Rocky” glory, and his career took turn after strange turn as he worked to stay in the spotlight: he went on to fight Andre the Giant as “The Assassin” and boxed a 900 pound bear. Twice.

Genre : Documentary

Comedy
1936
Movie

Disorder in the Court

Disorder in the Court

6.6
1936

The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.

Comedy
1984
Movie

Bete Balanço

Bete Balanço

4.8
1984

A small town girl, who's an aspiring singer, tries to make a living out of music in the big city of Rio de Janeiro.

Documentary
2015
Movie

Listen to Me Marlon

Listen to Me Marlon

7.5
2015

With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.

Genre : Documentary

Music
2015
Movie

Soaked in Bleach

Soaked in Bleach

7.1
2015

Twenty years ago, Kurt Cobain was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound to the head. The world was told it was a suicide, but evidence would lead many people to believe it might be otherwise. The film investigates the possibilities that exist that Kurt Cobain's death might not have been a suicide, that the Seattle Police Department rushed their verdict, and the global media perpetuated lies and misinformation fed to them by Courtney Love that created the belief in many that Cobain killed himself—but when revealed to be lies—lead many to now question what happened.

Documentary
2015
Movie

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

7.9
2015

A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.

Genre : Documentary

Comedy
2014
Movie

Obvious Child

Obvious Child

6.5
2014

An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.

Drama
2015
Movie

45 Years

45 Years

6.6
2015

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

Thriller
2015
Movie

Pawn Sacrifice

Pawn Sacrifice

6.8
2015

American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

Genre : Thriller

Fantasy
2018
Movie

Border

Border

6.7
2018

When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.

Genre : Fantasy

Crime
1958
Movie

Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

7.8
1958

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.

Thriller
2020
Movie

The Courier

The Courier

7.1
2020

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Genre : Thriller

Mystery
1998
Movie

Pi

Pi

7.1
1998

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

Genre : Mystery