Bumping this, as it's the right place to put it, but I recommend both Best of Enemies and The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
Best of Enemies covers the William H Buckley Jr and Gore Vidal debates circa the party conventions of 1968. Both were powerhouse intellectuals on the far reaches of the political spectrum, and their mastery of debate and hatred for each other forever transformed how politics was covered in American media.
The Roosevelts documentary touches on every corner of the Roosevelt family to fully color in the lives of eminent American characters like TR, FDR, and Eleanor. One was a ceaseless warrior for right over wrong fighting for a lawful and just world, the other was so fully secure in himself that lame legs couldn't stop the power of his personality from lifting a depressed nation, and one other was the feminine torch-bearer of the century. Really well done documentary.
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