Gore Vidal

Insults fly as ABC’s TV ratings soar when literary enemies William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal cover the 1968 Republican and Democratic conventions.

An exploration of U.S. foreign policy and whether the idea of military supremacy overshadows the other important issues of American life.

Literary and Hollywood royalty offer an unprecedented look inside the private world of the reclusive author of the watershed The Catcher in the Rye.

A young man assumes a false identity as a genetically perfect space navigator until a murder investigation threatens to expose his subterfuge.

A provocateur, a rebel, a performer and notorious anarchist, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. Containing never-seen-before material, this shocking documentary goes beyond the Mailer of the bookshelves and bestseller lists to reveal the social critic, filmmaker, family man and lover, giving a rare and unique insight into an intellectual man and villainous hero.