**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory | Louis Lumière | 2230 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat | Auguste and Louis Lumière | 1229 |
| 2 | The Kiss | William Heise | 2709 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Voyage to the Moon | Georges Méliès | 337 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Great Train Robbery | Edwin S. Porter | 688 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Impossible Voyage | Georges Méliès | 2473 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fantomas | Louis Feuillade | 2682 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Cabiria | Giovanni Pastrone | 1974 |
| 2 | Gertie the Dinosaur | Winsor McCay | 2776 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Birth of a Nation | D.W. Griffith | 312 |
| 2 | Les Vampires | Louis Feuillade | 903 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Intolerance | D.W. Griffith | 314 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Immigrant | Charles Chaplin | 2450 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Broken Blossoms | D.W. Griffith | 900 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Robert Wiene | 141 |
| 2 | The Golem | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener | 1728 |
| 3 | Within Our Gates | Oscar Micheaux | 2235 |
| 4 | Way Down East | D.W. Griffith | 2774 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Kid | Charles Chaplin | 338 |
| 2 | The Phantom Chariot | Victor Sjöström | 1464 |
| 3 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Rex Ingram | 2222 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Nosferatu | F.W. Murnau | 84 |
| 2 | Nanook of the North | Robert J. Flaherty | 411 |
| 3 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | Fritz Lang | 957 |
| 4 | Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages | Benjamin Christensen | 994 |
| 5 | Foolish Wives | Erich von Stroheim | 1897 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Safety Last! | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 658 |
| 2 | Our Hospitality | John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton | 1117 |
| 3 | The Smiling Madame Beudet | Germaine Dulac | 2595 |
| 4 | The Ten Commandments | Cecil B. DeMille | 2796 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sherlock, Jr. | Buster Keaton | 198 |
| 2 | Greed | Erich von Stroheim | 321 |
| 3 | The Last Laugh | F.W. Murnau | 597 |
| 4 | The Thief of Bagdad | Raoul Walsh | 813 |
| 5 | Siegfried | Fritz Lang | 1195 |
| 6 | Kriemhild's Revenge | Fritz Lang | 1574 |
| 7 | The Navigator | Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton | 1886 |
| 8 | The Iron Horse | John Ford | 1956 |
| 9 | The Crazy Ray | René Clair | 2362 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Battleship Potemkin | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 90 |
| 2 | The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin | 116 |
| 3 | The Phantom of the Opera | Rupert Julian | 1020 |
| 4 | The Big Parade | King Vidor | 1076 |
| 5 | Strike | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1176 |
| 6 | The Freshman | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 1489 |
| 7 | Ben-Hur | Fred Niblo | 1673 |
| 8 | Seven Chances | Buster Keaton | 1840 |
| 9 | The Lost World | Harry O. Hoyt | 2280 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The General | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 49 |
| 2 | Faust | F.W. Murnau | 835 |
| 3 | The Adventures of Prince Achmed | Lotte Reiniger | 1821 |
| 4 | A Page of Madness | Teinosuke Kinugasa | 2012 |
| 5 | Ménilmontant | Dimitri Kirsanoff | 2297 |
| 6 | Mother | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 2705 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Metropolis | Fritz Lang | 39 |
| 2 | Sunrise** | F.W. Murnau | 81 |
| 3 | Napoléon | Abel Gance | 500 |
| 4 | The Jazz Singer | Alan Crosland | 679 |
| 5 | October | Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1217 |
| 6 | Wings** | William A. Wellman | 1283 |
| 7 | Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | Walter Ruttmann | 1491 |
| 8 | The Lodger | Alfred Hitchcock | 1532 |
| 9 | Seventh Heaven* | Frank Borzage | 1928 |
| 10 | The Unknown | Tod Browning | 1979 |
| 11 | Underworld | Josef von Sternberg | 2364 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 123 |
| 2 | The Crowd* | King Vidor | 572 |
| 3 | The Wind | Victor Sjöström | 605 |
| 4 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Charles Reisner | 781 |
| 5 | The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick | 1041 |
| 6 | Fall of the House of Usher | Jean Epstein | 1186 |
| 7 | The Circus | Charles Chaplin | 1412 |
| 8 | The Last Command | Josef von Sternberg | 2036 |
| 9 | Spione | Fritz Lang | 2201 |
| 10 | The Docks of New York | Josef von Sternberg | 2225 |
| 11 | Show People | King Vidor | 2500 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Man with the Movie Camera | Dziga Vertov | 180 |
| 2 | Un chien andalou | Luis Buñuel | 304 |
| 3 | Pandora's Box | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 644 |
| 4 | Hallelujah! | King Vidor | 1930 |
| 5 | Blackmail | Alfred Hitchcock | 2125 |
| 6 | Diary of a Lost Girl | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 2322 |
| 7 | The Broadway Melody** | Harry Beaumont | 2590 |
| 8 | The Love Parade* | Ernst Lubitsch | 2637 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
