Lord of the Flies (1963) (b/w, Criterion Collection)

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When a group of young schoolboys are stranded on a Pacific island following a plane crash, they initially regard it as a grand adventure. However, after splitting into two rival groups, the children gradually descend into tribal warfare.

In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding`s legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of the Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters` ids. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its source material.