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.
The Best of Enemies is a Drama, History film released in 2019.
14 subtitle releases available in English. 3 releases include Hearing Impaired (HI) subtitles.
Movie Dialogue Sample
This corn bread is good.
546
00:38:57,914 --> 00:38:59,814
I would love it.
547
00:39:02,714 --> 00:39:04,446
Let me help you clear this.
548
00:39:04,448 --> 00:39:07,047
It was delicious.
Very nice of you. Thank you.
549
00:39:07,049 --> 00:39:08,847
You outdid yourself,
Mrs. Keith.
550
00:39:08,849 --> 00:39:10,880
Oh, well, thank you.
551
00:39:10,882 --> 00:39:13,713
Ten days is a long time
with them people, Garland.
552
00:39:13,715 --> 00:39:17,613
It's also a long time for them to
be making decisions on integration
553
00:39:17,615 --> 00:39:19,513
without us having a voice.
554
00:39:19,515 --> 00:39:22,116
That's not gonna make it
any easier to sell to my people.
555
00:39:23,016 --> 00:39:25,183
Well, you're their
president, C.P.
556
00:39:26,250 --> 00:39:27,715
You just make 'em understand.
557
00:39:29,483 --> 00:39:33,115
Hell, it says so right there
in your Klan Creed:
558
00:39:33,117 --> 00:39:38,183
"Failure to know your enemy gives
them aid and comfort" and all that.
559
00:39:39,850 --> 00:39:44,383
I mean, the truth is, C.P., we...
we don't know the enemy at all.
560
00:39:45,449 --> 00:39:46,516
Do we?
561
00:40:03,284 --> 00:40:05,547
You're yankin' on the trigger
too hard.
562
00:40:05,549 --> 00:40:08,715
Trick is to think of it as pressin'
the trigger, not pullin' on it.
563
00:40:08,717 --> 00:40:09,851
Ten-hut!
564
00:40:10,118 --> 00:40:11,615
Y'all heed this man, now.
565
00:40:11,617 --> 00:40:13,251
Mr. Kelly here's an expert.
566
00:40:13,717 --> 00:40:16,216
He even knows that word for when
you breathe out 'fore you shoot.
567
00:40:16,218 --> 00:40:17,417
What's that called again?
568
00:40:17,951 --> 00:40:20,182
Respiratory pause.
569
00:40:20,184 --> 00:40:22,449
See? What'd I tell ya?
570
00:40:22,451 --> 00:40:25,483
- All right, one more, then next up.
- All right.
571
00:40:25,485 --> 00:40:28,219
You didn't care too much for
that conversation last night.
572
00:40:29,018 --> 00:40:31,851
Well, when it's me and you,
it's fine.
573
00:40:32,817 --> 00:40:34,918
I ain't much for talking
in mixed company.
574
00:40:35,650 --> 00:40:37,383
Well, we do need
people there, Floyd.
575
00:40:37,385 --> 00:40:40,418
And Carvie asked me
personally, so...
576
00:40:41,185 --> 00:40:44,085
Yeah, I know it, C.P.
And I'll back you up on it.
577
00:40:44,818 --> 00:40:48,983
But, uh... be careful.
Careful of what?
578
00:40:48,985 --> 00:40:50,718
If you wrestle with a pig...
579
00:40:52,019 --> 00:40:53,285
...you gonna get muddy.
580
00:40:54,952 --> 00:40:57,850
Meeting these benchmarks
successfully will depend entirely
581
00:40:57,852 --> 00:41:01,984
on the dedication and enthusiasm
of this steering committee.
582
00:41:01,986 --> 00:41:04,984
And, uh, we haven't got
much time to get organized,
583
00:41:04,986 --> 00:41:08,053
so priority one
will be to get the word out
584
00:41:08,551 --> 00:41:13,919
and to recruit as many citizens as
possible to come and participate.
585
00:41:15,220 --> 00:41:18,586
All right,
before we go any further,
586
00:41:18,953 --> 00:41:20,986
we need to elect
our two co-chairs.
587
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,187
I nominate Ann Atwater...
588
00:41:28,853 --> 00:41:30,519
and C.P. Ellis.
589
00:41:35,987 --> 00:41:38,019
But he's a Klansman.
590
00:41:38,021 --> 00:41:40,087
And we're talking
about integration.
591
00:41:40,519 --> 00:41:44,551
Uh, Mr. Riddick, I already done
told you I won't work with that man.
592
00:41:44,553 --> 00:41:46,485
That'd be just fine with me.
593
00:41:46,487 --> 00:41:48,952
Everybody know it would be
just fine with you, C.P.
594
00:41:48,954 --> 00:41:50,718
Just hold on a minute now,
Ann.
595
00:41:50,720 --> 00:41:53,021
I'd like to hear from C.P.
on this. Mr. Ellis.
596
00:41:55,254 --> 00:41:58,518
Well, I'm not in the habit of interviewing
for a job that I don't really want.
597
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,752
But you're asking,
so I'll tell you.
598
00:42:00,754 --> 00:42:03,919
Everybody talkin' about nigras want
this, nigras need that.
599
00:42:03,921 --> 00:42:06,553
This whole thing started 'cause
of what nigras are demanding.
600
00:42:08,354 --> 00:42:12,020
What about white folks?
What about what we want?
601
00:42:12,022 --> 00:42:14,719
You already got everything you want.
No, we don't.
602
00:42:14,721 --> 00:42:18,022
Now the niggers in this town are trying
to take away everything we got left.
603
00:42:18,721 --> 00:42:21,254
They don't want us to play
"Dixie" at our schools.
604
00:42:21,855 --> 00:42:23,355
That's our song.
605
00:42:24,155 --> 00:42:27,286
They're angry when we fly the
Confederate flag at ball games.
606
00:42:27,288 --> 00:42:31,487
And why should one of our boys
have to play ball under that flag?
607
00:42:31,489 --> 00:42:33,586
That flag is
our
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