**--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 | 1649 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Voyage to the Moon | Georges Méliès | 473 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Great Train Robbery | Edwin S. Porter | 1191 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fantomas | Louis Feuillade | 1971 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Cabiria | Giovanni Pastrone | 1807 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Birth of a Nation | D.W. Griffith | 112 |
| 2 | Les Vampires | Louis Feuillade | 697 |
| 3 | The Cheat | Cecil B. DeMille | 1752 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Intolerance | D.W. Griffith | 133 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Broken Blossoms | D.W. Griffith | 501 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Robert Wiene | 237 |
| 2 | Way Down East | D.W. Griffith | 1294 |
| 3 | The Golem | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener | 2184 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Kid | Charles Chaplin | 522 |
| 2 | The Sheik | George Melford | 1566 |
| 3 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Rex Ingram | 1919 |
| 4 | Orphans of the Storm | D.W. Griffith | 2323 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Nosferatu | F.W. Murnau | 115 |
| 2 | Nanook of the North | Robert J. Flaherty | 339 |
| 3 | Foolish Wives | Erich von Stroheim | 946 |
| 4 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | Fritz Lang | 1113 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Safety Last! | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 606 |
| 2 | Our Hospitality | John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton | 1100 |
| 3 | La Roue | Abel Gance | 1326 |
| 4 | The Ten Commandments | Cecil B. DeMille | 2231 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Greed | Erich von Stroheim | 162 |
| 2 | Sherlock, Jr. | Buster Keaton | 226 |
| 3 | The Last Laugh | F.W. Murnau | 496 |
| 4 | The Thief of Bagdad | Raoul Walsh | 571 |
| 5 | The Navigator | Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton | 989 |
| 6 | Kriemhild's Revenge | Fritz Lang | 1186 |
| 7 | Siegfried | Fritz Lang | 1417 |
| 8 | The Iron Horse | John Ford | 2024 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin | 60 |
| 2 | The Battleship Potemkin | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 65 |
| 3 | The Big Parade | King Vidor | 444 |
| 4 | The Phantom of the Opera | Rupert Julian | 463 |
| 5 | The Freshman | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 628 |
| 6 | Strike | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 858 |
| 7 | Ben-Hur | Fred Niblo | 861 |
| 8 | Varieté | Ewald André Dupont | 2119 |
| 9 | The Lost World | Harry O. Hoyt | 2251 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Faust | F.W. Murnau | 1249 |
| 2 | The Black Pirate | Albert Parker | 1879 |
| 3 | Mother | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 1927 |
| 4 | The Son of the Sheik | George Fitzmaurice | 2324 |
| 5 | Flesh and the Devil | Clarence Brown | 2325 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The General | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 42 |
| 2 | Metropolis | Fritz Lang | 66 |
| 3 | Sunrise** | F.W. Murnau | 95 |
| 4 | Napoléon | Abel Gance | 194 |
| 5 | The Jazz Singer | Alan Crosland | 528 |
| 6 | Wings** | William A. Wellman | 934 |
| 7 | Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | Walter Ruttmann | 1277 |
| 8 | Seventh Heaven* | Frank Borzage | 1563 |
| 9 | The Kid Brother | Ted Wilde | 1822 |
| 10 | The Unknown | Tod Browning | 1980 |
| 11 | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Ernst Lubitsch | 2197 |
| 12 | The End of St. Petersburg | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 2448 |
| 13 | The Lodger | Alfred Hitchcock | 2464 |
| 14 | Underworld | Josef von Sternberg | 2474 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 139 |
| 2 | The Crowd* | King Vidor | 258 |
| 3 | The Wind | Victor Sjöström | 410 |
| 4 | October | Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 766 |
| 5 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Charles Reisner | 844 |
| 6 | The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick | 1166 |
| 7 | The Docks of New York | Josef von Sternberg | 1588 |
| 8 | An Italian Straw Hat | René Clair | 1678 |
| 9 | The Wedding March | Erich von Stroheim | 1751 |
| 10 | Storm over Asia | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 1798 |
| 11 | Show People | King Vidor | 1901 |
| 12 | Spione | Fritz Lang | 1978 |
| 13 | The Last Command | Josef von Sternberg | 1995 |
| 14 | The Circus | Charles Chaplin | 2005 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Man with the Movie Camera | Dziga Vertov | 284 |
| 2 | Pandora's Box | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 367 |
| 3 | Un chien andalou | Luis Buñuel | 369 |
| 4 | Blackmail | Alfred Hitchcock | 1535 |
| 5 | The Broadway Melody** | Harry Beaumont | 1877 |
| 6 | The Love Parade* | Ernst Lubitsch | 1938 |
| 7 | Applause | Rouben Mamoulian | 2058 |
| 8 | Big Business | James W. Horne and Leo McCarey | 2516 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
