
The Best of Enemies (2019)
Overview
Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.
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At a glance
- Release date
- April 5, 2019
- Runtime
- 2 h 13 m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Robin Bissell
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10
Cast

Taraji P. Henson
Ann Atwater

Sam Rockwell
Claiborne Paul Ellis

Babou Ceesay
Bill Riddick

Anne Heche
Mary Ellis

Wes Bentley
Floyd Kelly

Nick Searcy
Garland Keith

Bruce McGill
Carvie Oldham

John Gallagher Jr.
Lee Trombley

Nicholas Logan
Wiley Yates

Gilbert Glenn Brown
Howard Clement

Caitlin Mehner
Maddy Mays
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Dolan Wilson
Councilman Bill Atkins












