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