This film was released on Friday 24th July 2015 and is no longer screening.

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In 1968, the American news channel ABC was trailing behind its competitors at the bottom of the TV ratings. They hired William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal to be part of their coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions. Buckley was the founder of the National Review and a preeminent conservative. Vidal was a left leaning novelist whose most famous work at the time, Myra Breckinridge, had dealt provocatively with themes of sexuality and feminism. Vidal and Buckley not only hated each other from the off, they also regarded each other’s ideologies as dangerous for their country.

With undisguised enmity and fearless intellectualism, their explosive exchanges which drew big audiences and, it’s argued in this gripping new documentary from filmmakers Robert Gordon and the Academy Award-winning Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom), changed how news was presented in America forever. (Notes by Michael Hayden.)

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