| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 39 |
| 2 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 49 |
| 3 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 81 |
| 4 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 84 |
| 5 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 90 |
| 6 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 116 |
| 7 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 123 |
| 8 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 141 |
| 9 | The Man with the Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 180 |
| 10 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 198 |
| 11 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 304 |
| 12 | Greed | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim | 321 |
| 13 | The Kid | 1921 | Charles Chaplin | 338 |
| 14 | Nanook of the North | 1922 | Robert J. Flaherty | 411 |
| 15 | Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance | 500 |
| 16 | The Crowd | 1928 | King Vidor | 572 |
| 17 | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 597 |
| 18 | The Wind | 1928 | Victor Sjöström | 605 |
| 19 | Pandora's Box | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 644 |
| 20 | Safety Last! | 1923 | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 658 |
| 21 | The Jazz Singer | 1927 | Alan Crosland | 679 |
| 22 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | 1928 | Charles Reisner | 781 |
| 23 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1924 | Raoul Walsh | 813 |
| 24 | Faust | 1926 | F.W. Murnau | 835 |
| 25 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | 1922 | Fritz Lang | 957 |
| 26 | Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages | 1922 | Benjamin Christensen | 994 |
| 27 | The Phantom of the Opera | 1925 | Rupert Julian | 1020 |
| 28 | The Cameraman | 1928 | Edward Sedgwick | 1041 |
| 29 | The Big Parade | 1925 | King Vidor | 1076 |
| 30 | Our Hospitality | 1923 | John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton | 1117 |
| 31 | Strike | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1176 |
| 32 | Fall of the House of Usher | 1928 | Jean Epstein | 1186 |
| 33 | Siegfried | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1195 |
| 34 | October | 1927 | Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1217 |
| 35 | Wings | 1927 | William A. Wellman | 1283 |
| 36 | The Circus | 1928 | Charles Chaplin | 1412 |
| 37 | The Phantom Chariot | 1921 | Victor Sjöström | 1464 |
| 38 | The Freshman | 1925 | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 1489 |
| 39 | Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | 1927 | Walter Ruttmann | 1491 |
| 40 | The Lodger | 1927 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1532 |
| 41 | Kriemhild's Revenge | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1574 |
| 42 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 1673 |
| 43 | The Golem | 1920 | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener | 1728 |
| 44 | The Adventures of Prince Achmed | 1926 | Lotte Reiniger | 1821 |
| 45 | Seven Chances | 1925 | Buster Keaton | 1840 |
| 46 | The Navigator | 1924 | Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton | 1886 |
| 47 | Foolish Wives | 1922 | Erich von Stroheim | 1897 |
| 48 | Seventh Heaven | 1927 | Frank Borzage | 1928 |
| 49 | Hallelujah! | 1929 | King Vidor | 1930 |
| 50 | The Iron Horse | 1924 | John Ford | 1956 |
| 51 | The Unknown | 1927 | Tod Browning | 1979 |
| 52 | A Page of Madness | 1926 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | 2012 |
| 53 | The Last Command | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | 2036 |
| 54 | Blackmail | 1929 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2125 |
| 55 | Spione | 1928 | Fritz Lang | 2201 |
| 56 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | 1921 | Rex Ingram | 2222 |
| 57 | The Docks of New York | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | 2225 |
| 58 | Within Our Gates | 1920 | Oscar Micheaux | 2235 |
| 59 | The Lost World | 1925 | Harry O. Hoyt | 2280 |
| 60 | Ménilmontant | 1926 | Dimitri Kirsanoff | 2297 |
| 61 | Diary of a Lost Girl | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 2322 |
| 62 | The Crazy Ray | 1924 | René Clair | 2362 |
| 63 | Underworld | 1927 | Josef von Sternberg | 2364 |
| 64 | Show People | 1928 | King Vidor | 2500 |
| 65 | The Broadway Melody | 1929 | Harry Beaumont | 2590 |
| 66 | The Smiling Madame Beudet | 1923 | Germaine Dulac | 2595 |
| 67 | The Love Parade | 1929 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2637 |
| 68 | Mother | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 2705 |
| 69 | Way Down East | 1920 | D.W. Griffith | 2774 |
| 70 | The Ten Commandments | 1923 | Cecil B. DeMille | 2796 |