**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat | Auguste and Louis Lumière | 2000 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Voyage to the Moon | Georges Méliès | 505 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Great Train Robbery | Edwin S. Porter | 1451 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fantomas | Louis Feuillade | 1842 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Cabiria | Giovanni Pastrone | 1783 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Birth of a Nation | D.W. Griffith | 145 |
| 2 | Les Vampires | Louis Feuillade | 787 |
| 3 | The Cheat | Cecil B. DeMille | 1886 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Intolerance | D.W. Griffith | 160 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Broken Blossoms | D.W. Griffith | 568 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Robert Wiene | 235 |
| 2 | Way Down East | D.W. Griffith | 1373 |
| 3 | The Golem | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener | 1741 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Kid | Charles Chaplin | 514 |
| 2 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Rex Ingram | 1686 |
| 3 | The Sheik | George Melford | 1969 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Nosferatu | F.W. Murnau | 119 |
| 2 | Nanook of the North | Robert J. Flaherty | 372 |
| 3 | Foolish Wives | Erich von Stroheim | 1094 |
| 4 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | Fritz Lang | 1264 |
| 5 | Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages | Benjamin Christensen | 1940 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Safety Last! | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 726 |
| 2 | Our Hospitality | John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton | 1206 |
| 3 | La Roue | Abel Gance | 2070 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Greed | Erich von Stroheim | 181 |
| 2 | Sherlock, Jr. | Buster Keaton | 257 |
| 3 | The Last Laugh | F.W. Murnau | 501 |
| 4 | The Thief of Bagdad | Raoul Walsh | 612 |
| 5 | The Navigator | Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton | 1234 |
| 6 | Kriemhild's Revenge | Fritz Lang | 1506 |
| 7 | Siegfried | Fritz Lang | 1519 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Battleship Potemkin | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 77 |
| 2 | The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin | 85 |
| 3 | The Big Parade | King Vidor | 461 |
| 4 | The Phantom of the Opera | Rupert Julian | 527 |
| 5 | The Freshman | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 824 |
| 6 | Strike | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1005 |
| 7 | Ben-Hur | Fred Niblo | 1058 |
| 8 | The Lost World | Harry O. Hoyt | 1914 |
| 9 | Seven Chances | Buster Keaton | 2044 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The General | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 44 |
| 2 | Faust | F.W. Murnau | 1246 |
| 3 | Mother | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 2054 |
| 4 | The Black Pirate | Albert Parker | 2128 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Metropolis | Fritz Lang | 62 |
| 2 | Sunrise** | F.W. Murnau | 104 |
| 3 | Napoléon | Abel Gance | 227 |
| 4 | The Jazz Singer | Alan Crosland | 638 |
| 5 | Wings** | William A. Wellman | 1106 |
| 6 | Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | Walter Ruttmann | 1393 |
| 7 | The Kid Brother | Ted Wilde | 2056 |
| 8 | The Unknown | Tod Browning | 2067 |
| 9 | Seventh Heaven* | Frank Borzage | 2188 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 142 |
| 2 | The Crowd* | King Vidor | 297 |
| 3 | The Wind | Victor Sjöström | 400 |
| 4 | October | Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 779 |
| 5 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Charles Reisner | 789 |
| 6 | The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick | 1164 |
| 7 | Spione | Fritz Lang | 1647 |
| 8 | The Wedding March | Erich von Stroheim | 1853 |
| 9 | An Italian Straw Hat | René Clair | 1917 |
| 10 | Storm over Asia | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 1927 |
| 11 | The Docks of New York | Josef von Sternberg | 1993 |
| 12 | Show People | King Vidor | 2134 |
| 13 | The Circus | Charles Chaplin | 2255 |
| 14 | The Last Command | Josef von Sternberg | 2259 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Man with the Movie Camera | Dziga Vertov | 314 |
| 2 | Pandora's Box | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 375 |
| 3 | Un chien andalou | Luis Buñuel | 414 |
| 4 | The Broadway Melody** | Harry Beaumont | 1751 |
| 5 | Blackmail | Alfred Hitchcock | 2002 |
| 6 | Applause | Rouben Mamoulian | 2032 |
| 7 | The Love Parade* | Ernst Lubitsch | 2193 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
