This list is sorted from the longest film to the (relatively) shortest film. Several of these are made-for-television miniseries, and Les Vampires (1915) is a serial. For the rest of the films, there are sometimes even longer cuts and/or shorter versions.
| Length in Minutes |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 931 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1980 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1174 |
| 924 | Heimat | 1984 | Edgar Reitz | 1895 |
| 729 | Out 1 | 1971 | Jacques Rivette | 2336 |
| 594 | Band of Brothers | 2001 | David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To | 2591 |
| 572 | The Decalogue | 1989 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 413 |
| 566 | Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann | 243 |
| 551 | Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks | 2002 | Bing Wang | 1908 |
| 467 | O.J.: Made in America | 2016 | Ezra Edelman | 2780 |
| 450 | Sátántangó | 1994 | Béla Tarr | 650 |
| 422 | War and Peace | 1966 | Sergey Bondarchuk | 1776 |
| 421 | Les Vampires | 1915 | Louis Feuillade | 903 |
| 384 | Lonesome Dove | 1989 | Simon Wincer | 2658 |
| 366 | The Best of Youth | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana | 1147 |
| 334 | Carlos | 2010 | Olivier Assayas | 2666 |
| 317 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1600 |
| 271 | Gettysburg | 1993 | Ronald F. Maxwell | 2033 |
| 267 | Histoire(s) du cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | 1184 | |
| 267 | Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | 1988 | Marcel Ophüls | 2610 |
| 264 | The Kingdom | 1994 | Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier | 2810 |
| 260 | The Hour of the Furnaces | 1968 | Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez | 1762 |
| 255 | When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | 2006 | Spike Lee | 1300 |
| 252 | L'Amour Fou | 1969 | Jacques Rivette | 2731 |
| 251 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls | 709 |
| 242 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | 1922 | Fritz Lang | 957 |
| 242 | Hamlet | 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | 2652 |
| 240 | Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance | 500 |
| 238 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 32 |
| 238 | La Belle noiseuse | 1991 | Jacques Rivette | 1254 |
| 237 | A Brighter Summer Day | 1991 | Edward Yang | 729 |
| 237 | Love Exposure | 2008 | Shion Sono | 2762 |
| 230 | The Travelling Players | 1975 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1024 |
| 229 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 133 |
| 228 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 19 |
| 224 | Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India | 2001 | Ashutosh Gowariker | 1436 |
| 220 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 493 |
| 219 | Heaven's Gate | 1980 | Michael Cimino | 910 |
| 217 | The Mother and the Whore | 1973 | Jean Eustache | 692 |
| 212 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 159 |
| 212 | World on a Wire | 1973 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 2240 |
| 210 | Chelsea Girls | 1966 | Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol | 1717 |
| 210 | Edvard Munch | 1974 | Peter Watkins | 1787 |
| 208 | The Human Condition I: No Greater Love | 1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | 2032 |
| 207 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 22 |
| 205 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 160 |
| 205 | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World | 1963 | Stanley Kramer | 1476 |
| 204 | Sholay | 1975 | Ramesh Sippy | 2266 |
| 202 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 18 |
| 202 | Jeanne Dielman | 1975 | Chantal Akerman | 408 |
| 202 | Malcolm X | 1992 | Spike Lee | 746 |
| 201 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 48 |
| 201 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 641 |
| 200 | A Touch of Zen | 1971 | King Hu | 1265 |
| 197 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 254 |
| 197 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 425 |
| 196 | Winter Sleep | 2014 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 2750 |
| 195 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 28 |
| 195 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | 312 |
| 195 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | 1204 |
| 194 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 129 |
| 193 | The Right Stuff | 1983 | Philip Kaufman | 603 |
| 193 | Celine & Julie Go Boating | 1974 | Jacques Rivette | 631 |
| 192 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1654 |
| 192 | Nixon | 1995 | Oliver Stone | 1946 |
| 191 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | 482 |
| 190 | The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer | 1961 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1669 |
| 189 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 179 |
| 189 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 421 |
| 189 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 529 |
| 188 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 215 |
| 188 | Magnolia | 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 292 |
| 188 | Short Cuts | 1993 | Robert Altman | 675 |
| 187 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson | 1027 |
| 186 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 293 |
| 186 | The Tree of Wooden Clogs | 1978 | Ermanno Olmi | 1096 |
| 185 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 231 |
| 185 | Red Beard | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa | 1225 |
| 184 | Woodstock | 1970 | Michael Wadleigh | 805 |
| 183 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 110 |
| 183 | Kwaidan | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1161 |
| 182 | The Saragossa Manuscript | 1965 | Wojciech Has | 2291 |
| 182 | El Cid | 1961 | Anthony Mann | 2544 |
| 181 | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Kevin Costner | 318 |
| 181 | Fiddler on the Roof | 1971 | Norman Jewison | 1277 |
| 181 | Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1454 |
| 181 | The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity | 1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | 2367 |
| 180 | Blue Is the Warmest Color | 2013 | Abdellatif Kechiche | 935 |
| 180 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Martin Scorsese | 1160 |
| 180 | 49 Up | 2005 | Michael Apted | 1329 |
| 180 | Inland Empire | 2006 | David Lynch | 1361 |
| 180 | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa | 1416 |