This list is sorted from the longest film to the (relatively) shortest film. The first four films are made-for-television miniseries, and Flash Gordon (1936) and Les Vampires (1915) are serials. For the rest of the films, there is sometimes even longer cuts and/or shorter versions.
| Length in Minutes |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 924 | Heimat | 1984 | Edgar Reitz | 1404 |
| 894 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1980 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1233 |
| 705 | Band of Brothers | 2001 | David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To | 1915 |
| 550 | The Decalogue | 1989 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 396 |
| 544 | Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann | 415 |
| 450 | Sátántangó | 1994 | Béla Tarr | 1155 |
| 427 | War and Peace | 1967 | Sergei Bondarchuk | 1019 |
| 399 | Les Vampires | 1915 | Louis Feuillade | 856 |
| 383 | The Best of Youth | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana | 1747 |
| 317 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 970 |
| 280 | The Kingdom | 1994 | Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier | 1960 |
| 273 | La Roue | 1923 | Abel Gance | 2011 |
| 266 | Histoire(s) du cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | 1935 | |
| 261 | Gettysburg | 1993 | Ronald F. Maxwell | 1548 |
| 260 | The Hour of the Furnaces | 1970 | Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez | 2370 |
| 251 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls | 599 |
| 245 | Flash Gordon | 1936 | Frederick Stephani | 2108 |
| 242 | Hamlet | 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | 1386 |
| 242 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | 1922 | Fritz Lang | 1594 |
| 238 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 17 |
| 237 | A Brighter Summer Day | 1991 | Edward Yang | 1108 |
| 236 | La Belle noiseuse | 1991 | Jacques Rivette | 1050 |
| 235 | Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance | 264 |
| 230 | The Travelling Players | 1975 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 988 |
| 229 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 207 |
| 224 | Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India | 2001 | Ashutosh Gowariker | 1884 |
| 220 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 403 |
| 219 | Heaven's Gate | 1980 | Michael Cimino | 1410 |
| 217 | The Mother and the Whore | 1973 | Jean Eustache | 1087 |
| 216 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 9 |
| 212 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 140 |
| 210 | Chelsea Girls | 1966 | Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol | 1489 |
| 207 | The Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 32 |
| 205 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 236 |
| 202 | Malcolm X | 1992 | Spike Lee | 582 |
| 201 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 96 |
| 201 | Olympia | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 596 |
| 201 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 605 |
| 201 | Jeanne Dielman | 1975 | Chantal Akerman | 751 |
| 200 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 14 |
| 200 | A Touch of Zen | 1971 | King Hu | 1206 |
| 197 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 191 |
| 195 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 22 |
| 194 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 63 |
| 194 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | 588 |
| 193 | The Right Stuff | 1983 | Philip Kaufman | 371 |
| 193 | Celine & Julie Go Boating | 1974 | Jacques Rivette | 727 |
| 192 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1397 |
| 192 | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World | 1963 | Stanley Kramer | 1445 |
| 192 | Nixon | 1995 | Oliver Stone | 1460 |
| 191 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | 251 |
| 190 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 129 |
| 190 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | 161 |
| 189 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 423 |
| 189 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 560 |
| 188 | Magnolia | 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 202 |
| 188 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 276 |
| 188 | Sholay | 1975 | Ramesh Sippy | 1987 |
| 187 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 332 |
| 187 | Short Cuts | 1993 | Robert Altman | 603 |
| 187 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson | 1075 |
| 186 | The Tree of Wooden Clogs | 1978 | Ermanno Olmi | 976 |
| 186 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer | 1126 |
| 185 | Red Beard | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa | 1450 |
| 184 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 211 |
| 184 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 355 |
| 184 | Woodstock | 1970 | Michael Wadleigh | 828 |
| 183 | O Lucky Man! | 1973 | Lindsay Anderson | 1354 |
| 183 | Pearl Harbor | 2001 | Michael Bay | 2029 |
| 182 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 85 |
| 182 | El Cid | 1961 | Anthony Mann | 2004 |
| 181 | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Kevin Costner | 213 |
| 181 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | 250 |
| 181 | Fiddler on the Roof | 1971 | Norman Jewison | 881 |
| 180 | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa | 1061 |
| 180 | The Diary of Anne Frank | 1959 | George Stevens | 1427 |