A documentary about the mythical collection of nationwide debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr.. Intended on the issues of their own day, these encounters that were vitriolic and explosive found define the age of public discourse from the media, signaling that our media landscape's bigbang period when spectacle trumped content and debate altered substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of both these two great leaders, and luxuriates in the speech and also the theater of their debates, begging the question,"What has television done to how we discuss politics within our democracy today?"