**—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 | 2351 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Voyage to the Moon | Georges Méliès | 377 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Great Train Robbery | Edwin S. Porter | 777 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Impossible Voyage | Georges Méliès | 2762 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Suspense | Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber | 2851 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Cabiria | Giovanni Pastrone | 2692 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Birth of a Nation | D.W. Griffith | 448 |
| 2 | Les Vampires | Louis Feuillade | 1069 |
| 3 | The Cheat | Cecil B. DeMille | 2941 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Intolerance | D.W. Griffith | 369 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Immigrant | Charles Chaplin | 2848 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Broken Blossoms | D.W. Griffith | 1275 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Robert Wiene | 174 |
| 2 | Within Our Gates | Oscar Micheaux | 1879 |
| 3 | The Golem | Paul Wegener | 2134 |
| 4 | Way Down East | D.W. Griffith | 2655 |
| 5 | One Week | Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton | 2925 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Kid | Charles Chaplin | 406 |
| 2 | The Phantom Chariot | Victor Sjöström | 1476 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Nosferatu | F.W. Murnau | 107 |
| 2 | Nanook of the North | Robert J. Flaherty | 587 |
| 3 | Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages | Benjamin Christensen | 996 |
| 4 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | Fritz Lang | 1307 |
| 5 | Foolish Wives | Erich von Stroheim | 2668 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Safety Last! | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 687 |
| 2 | Our Hospitality | John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton | 1649 |
| 3 | The Smiling Madame Beudet | Germaine Dulac | 2866 |
| 4 | The Ten Commandments | Cecil B. DeMille | 2900 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sherlock, Jr. | Buster Keaton | 281 |
| 2 | Greed | Erich von Stroheim | 473 |
| 3 | The Last Laugh | F.W. Murnau | 835 |
| 4 | The Thief of Bagdad | Raoul Walsh | 1199 |
| 5 | Siegfried | Fritz Lang | 1622 |
| 6 | Kriemhild's Revenge | Fritz Lang | 2201 |
| 7 | The Iron Horse | John Ford | 2246 |
| 8 | The Navigator | Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton | 2475 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Battleship Potemkin | Sergei Eisenstein | 131 |
| 2 | The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin | 171 |
| 3 | The Phantom of the Opera | Rupert Julian | 1003 |
| 4 | The Big Parade | King Vidor | 1382 |
| 5 | Strike | Sergei Eisenstein | 1795 |
| 6 | Ben-Hur | Fred Niblo | 1798 |
| 7 | The Freshman | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 2281 |
| 8 | Seven Chances | Buster Keaton | 2712 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The General | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 86 |
| 2 | Faust | F.W. Murnau | 1221 |
| 3 | The Adventures of Prince Achmed | Lotte Reiniger | 1696 |
| 4 | A Page of Madness | Teinosuke Kinugasa | 2355 |
| 5 | Ménilmontant | Dimitri Kirsanoff | 3037 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Metropolis | Fritz Lang | 43 |
| 2 | Sunrise** | F.W. Murnau | 117 |
| 3 | Napoléon | Abel Gance | 621 |
| 4 | The Jazz Singer | Alan Crosland | 1132 |
| 5 | Wings** | William A. Wellman | 1419 |
| 6 | The Lodger | Alfred Hitchcock | 1876 |
| 7 | Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | Walter Ruttmann | 2111 |
| 8 | The Unknown | Tod Browning | 2461 |
| 9 | Seventh Heaven* | Frank Borzage | 2654 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 152 |
| 2 | The Crowd* | King Vidor | 775 |
| 3 | The Wind | Victor Sjöström | 861 |
| 4 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Charles Reisner | 974 |
| 5 | The Circus | Charles Chaplin | 1121 |
| 6 | The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick | 1409 |
| 7 | Fall of the House of Usher | Jean Epstein | 1424 |
| 8 | October | Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein | 1939 |
| 9 | The Last Command | Josef von Sternberg | 2405 |
| 10 | Show People | King Vidor | 2532 |
| 11 | The Man Who Laughs | Paul Leni | 2816 |
| 12 | The Docks of New York | Josef von Sternberg | 2837 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Man with the Movie Camera | Dziga Vertov | 240 |
| 2 | Un chien andalou | Luis Buñuel | 382 |
| 3 | Pandora's Box | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 788 |
| 4 | Hallelujah! | King Vidor | 1969 |
| 5 | Diary of a Lost Girl | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 2400 |
| 6 | The Broadway Melody** | Harry Beaumont | 2682 |
| 7 | Blackmail | Alfred Hitchcock | 2796 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
