Stanley Kubrick learned strategy hustling chess in Washington Square Park and spent the rest of his career applying it to Hollywood — controlling every frame, every sound, every marketing decision with a precision that drove studios and actors to the edge of sanity. He made thirteen films in forty-six years, each one a masterpiece of obsessive control, and he did it from a fortified English estate where he could work without interference from the industry he had outwitted.

This episode traces Kubrick from his Bronx childhood through the chess hustling, the early independent films, the move to England, and the obsessive perfectionism that produced 2001, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket.

• The Bronx childhood, the chess hustling, and the photography career that taught him to see in frames
• The early independent films and the move to England to escape Hollywood interference
• 2001, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining — the obsessive shoots and the masterpieces they produced
• The reclusive English estate, the hundreds of takes, and the control that defined cinema’s most demanding director