I saw Best Of Enemies and it was a beyond great! The audience was primarily elderly, but everybody was Intune. I give it five stars.

Fascinating. These guys really hated each other and you can feel the tension. I very much want to see "Best of Enemies."

Been looking for this one for a long time.Many thanks.Isn't it incredible how far we have fallen since these two titans locked horns?

The idea that people were calling the end of the Cold War in the mid-60s is hilarious

At any rate, our political discourse has descended precipitously from this. The contemporary right has no spokesman of Buckley's caliber. The left has none of Vidal's.

Wow this is awesome to watch.

This was actually a very personal debate. The politics was just window dressing.

Tagging it with "mellifluouity"- vintage Buckley

I had searched for Smith's very initial plaudit which I paraphrase, "Welcome audience - tonite we have two gentlemen who are well versed and know how the use the English language most adroitly" Something to that effect. The Convention was going on in another arena but ABC was counter programming.

Buckley reminds me of that kid at school who corrects the teacher.

GREAT

more coming

They talk so pretty.

Why didn't you upload in 1080p? j/k :-P Thanks for posting!

Damnnn mono sound...

Vidal was right about Empire

Fifty years later, &, we r still at odds! Gee, I wonder y?! We all think differently, sometimes; rarely, alike. But, the GOOD news, I know, in the future, we'll all think alike. 😁y? UNDERSTANDING.

Ah, exhibit, two well born, intelligent, and eloquent men of opposing views artfully throwing darts(knives?) at each other. Very entertaining. And a style that is sadly missing in today's Trumped-era.

Too bad that pundit discourse has evolved into what we have today; something that's intended for, at best, a high school educated audience and at worst those who never made it that far. But on the other hand maybe that's the demographics of TV viewers? It often appears that if she's blonde and showing as much skin as possible she'll turn into a CNN/FOX news expert and to hell with it if there's any gray matter between the ears...

You know, if u weren't downtown or by the convention center chicago was as normal as a summers day. It was not an "armed camp" just 4-5 neighborhoods. Everyone from press, to protesters, to police grossly overreacted

It's obvious that Buckley had never had an opponent of Vidal's capacity. Buckley is ruffled and Vidal maintains a level head.

Mr. Buckley always was well prepared in terms of his command of knowledge relevant to the discussion, and he was fluent in the use of debating tactics. The more I watch these debates between him and Mr Vidal, hiwever, the more Mr. Vidal endears himself to me and seems to have defeated Mr. Buckley.

Vidal was a visionary, we did become an Empire and rather than the policemen of the world we became the mercenaries for the most despicable dictators. Our economic superiority was a myth.

The debate here is excellent. "Best of Enemies" is mostly a waste of time. There is hardly any of the debate in the movie! "Best of Enemies" succeeds in doing exactly what it purports to condemn -- bringing political discourse down to the level of entertainment and personal attacks.

8:03 "Have you noticed and major wars while a Republican was in office?"

Listening to debates like this one during the 1960s gives me a gentle reminder that back then, we argued about things that were tangible, such as the war, poverty, and communism. Today, the left finds themselves arguing about the big boogeyman no one can see - the non-tangibles like the environment, equality, equity, and social identity. The conservatives continue to debate the tangibles like they did during the 1960s and before but find themselves today in a situation where the opposition just doesn't know how to argue the issues. And this is why we fight instead of coming up with the right direction to head this country and the civil society - one can't even start the argument because the left will attempt to destroy you beforehand.

Two titans, indeed. Both brilliant and eloquent. But Buckley is very much Vidal's superior in logical debate. Time and again Buckley bests Vidal in that regard. Yet Vidal kept his cool and counterpunched effectively, although with rhetorical flourishes as opposed to logic.

Vidal ruined him. And I'm no liberal.

Both men sound pretentious and aristocratic, especially Buckley whose delivery is outright pompous the way he ends his sentences. Praps educated people talked that way - way back then.

9:28... "insouciance"? Well, I don't really care what that word means. These nagging, nit-pickers of negativism are irritating to the ear. They both look and sound as if they're exuding flatulence as they speak... which effects a nasally, effeminate affectation to their debate. If only contemporary POTUS candidates were as entertaining...