The Best of Enemies

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Taraji P. Henson Ann Atwater

Sam Rockwell Claiborne Paul Ellis

Babou Ceesay Bill Riddick

Anne Heche Mary Ellis

Wes Bentley Floyd Kelly