**--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 | 1561 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Voyage to the Moon | Georges Méliès | 517 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Great Train Robbery | Edwin S. Porter | 1237 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fantomas | Louis Feuillade | 2162 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Cabiria | Giovanni Pastrone | 2020 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Birth of a Nation | D.W. Griffith | 161 |
| 2 | Les Vampires | Louis Feuillade | 856 |
| 3 | The Cheat | Cecil B. DeMille | 2371 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Intolerance | D.W. Griffith | 181 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Broken Blossoms | D.W. Griffith | 616 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Robert Wiene | 223 |
| 2 | Way Down East | D.W. Griffith | 1474 |
| 3 | The Golem | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener | 2051 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Kid | Charles Chaplin | 502 |
| 2 | The Sheik | George Melford | 2033 |
| 3 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Rex Ingram | 2155 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Nosferatu | F.W. Murnau | 105 |
| 2 | Nanook of the North | Robert J. Flaherty | 364 |
| 3 | Foolish Wives | Erich von Stroheim | 1211 |
| 4 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | Fritz Lang | 1594 |
| 5 | Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages | Benjamin Christensen | 1887 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Safety Last! | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 672 |
| 2 | Our Hospitality | John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton | 1140 |
| 3 | La Roue | Abel Gance | 2011 |
| 4 | The Ten Commandments | Cecil B. DeMille | 2113 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Greed | Erich von Stroheim | 209 |
| 2 | Sherlock, Jr. | Buster Keaton | 261 |
| 3 | The Last Laugh | F.W. Murnau | 591 |
| 4 | The Thief of Bagdad | Raoul Walsh | 694 |
| 5 | The Navigator | Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton | 1415 |
| 6 | Siegfried | Fritz Lang | 1713 |
| 7 | Kriemhild's Revenge | Fritz Lang | 1908 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Battleship Potemkin | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 74 |
| 2 | The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin | 97 |
| 3 | The Big Parade | King Vidor | 461 |
| 4 | The Phantom of the Opera | Rupert Julian | 627 |
| 5 | The Freshman | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 716 |
| 6 | Strike | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1086 |
| 7 | Ben-Hur | Fred Niblo | 1226 |
| 8 | The Lost World | Harry O. Hoyt | 1715 |
| 9 | Seven Chances | Buster Keaton | 2125 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The General | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 45 |
| 2 | Faust | F.W. Murnau | 1375 |
| 3 | Mother | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 2133 |
| 4 | The Black Pirate | Albert Parker | 2192 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Metropolis | Fritz Lang | 53 |
| 2 | Sunrise** | F.W. Murnau | 99 |
| 3 | Napoléon | Abel Gance | 264 |
| 4 | The Jazz Singer | Alan Crosland | 666 |
| 5 | Wings** | William A. Wellman | 1091 |
| 6 | Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | Walter Ruttmann | 1552 |
| 7 | The Kid Brother | Ted Wilde | 1849 |
| 8 | The Unknown | Tod Browning | 2141 |
| 9 | Seventh Heaven* | Frank Borzage | 2282 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 143 |
| 2 | The Crowd* | King Vidor | 337 |
| 3 | The Wind | Victor Sjöström | 483 |
| 4 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Charles Reisner | 797 |
| 5 | October | Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 839 |
| 6 | The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick | 1208 |
| 7 | Spione | Fritz Lang | 1560 |
| 8 | The Circus | Charles Chaplin | 1687 |
| 9 | The Wedding March | Erich von Stroheim | 1936 |
| 10 | Storm over Asia | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 1992 |
| 11 | The Docks of New York | Josef von Sternberg | 2288 |
| 12 | The Last Command | Josef von Sternberg | 2363 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Man with the Movie Camera | Dziga Vertov | 296 |
| 2 | Un chien andalou | Luis Buñuel | 410 |
| 3 | Pandora's Box | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 446 |
| 4 | The Broadway Melody** | Harry Beaumont | 1728 |
| 5 | Hallelujah! | King Vidor | 2116 |
| 6 | Big Business | James W. Horne and Leo McCarey | 2227 |
| 7 | The Love Parade* | Ernst Lubitsch | 2285 |
| 8 | Blackmail | Alfred Hitchcock | 2304 |
| 9 | Applause | Rouben Mamoulian | 2350 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
