This Richard III is part of an eight-and-a-half-hour cycle of Shakespeare’s eight history plays, which Ryan has dubbed The Player Kings. He points to the difference made by the play following the ...

And I thought, ‘Well, who’s going to watch that?’ Then, I realized, ‘Maybe if [the character] was, like, a really badass guy.'” Documentarian Alex Gibney analyzes the behind-the-scenes ...