
In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

as Gore Vidal

as William F. Buckley, Jr.

as William Sheehan / Chet Huntley / Howard Austen

as Patricia Buckley

as Frank Meyer / Andy Warhol / Bobby Kennedy / More...

as Howard K Smith / Mayor Daley

as James Baldwin / George / Martin Luther King, Jr.

as Elmer Lower / Walter Kronkite

as Tariq Ali / Matt

as Aretha Franklin / Patty the Party Guest / Brooke Gladstone