| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 43 |
| 2 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 86 |
| 3 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 107 |
| 4 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 117 |
| 5 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei Eisenstein | 131 |
| 6 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 152 |
| 7 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 171 |
| 8 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 174 |
| 9 | The Man with the Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 240 |
| 10 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 281 |
| 11 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 382 |
| 12 | The Kid | 1921 | Charles Chaplin | 406 |
| 13 | Greed | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim | 473 |
| 14 | Nanook of the North | 1922 | Robert J. Flaherty | 587 |
| 15 | Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance | 621 |
| 16 | Safety Last! | 1923 | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 687 |
| 17 | The Crowd | 1928 | King Vidor | 775 |
| 18 | Pandora's Box | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 788 |
| 19 | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 835 |
| 20 | The Wind | 1928 | Victor Sjöström | 861 |
| 21 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | 1928 | Charles Reisner | 974 |
| 22 | Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages | 1922 | Benjamin Christensen | 996 |
| 23 | The Phantom of the Opera | 1925 | Rupert Julian | 1003 |
| 24 | The Circus | 1928 | Charles Chaplin | 1121 |
| 25 | The Jazz Singer | 1927 | Alan Crosland | 1132 |
| 26 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1924 | Raoul Walsh | 1199 |
| 27 | Faust | 1926 | F.W. Murnau | 1221 |
| 28 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | 1922 | Fritz Lang | 1307 |
| 29 | The Big Parade | 1925 | King Vidor | 1382 |
| 30 | The Cameraman | 1928 | Edward Sedgwick | 1409 |
| 31 | Wings | 1927 | William A. Wellman | 1419 |
| 32 | Fall of the House of Usher | 1928 | Jean Epstein | 1424 |
| 33 | The Phantom Chariot | 1921 | Victor Sjöström | 1476 |
| 34 | Siegfried | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1622 |
| 35 | Our Hospitality | 1923 | John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton | 1649 |
| 36 | The Adventures of Prince Achmed | 1926 | Lotte Reiniger | 1696 |
| 37 | Strike | 1925 | Sergei Eisenstein | 1795 |
| 38 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 1798 |
| 39 | The Lodger | 1927 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1876 |
| 40 | Within Our Gates | 1920 | Oscar Micheaux | 1879 |
| 41 | October | 1928 | Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein | 1939 |
| 42 | Hallelujah! | 1929 | King Vidor | 1969 |
| 43 | Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | 1927 | Walter Ruttmann | 2111 |
| 44 | The Golem | 1920 | Paul Wegener | 2134 |
| 45 | Kriemhild's Revenge | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 2201 |
| 46 | The Iron Horse | 1924 | John Ford | 2246 |
| 47 | The Freshman | 1925 | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 2281 |
| 48 | A Page of Madness | 1926 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | 2355 |
| 49 | Diary of a Lost Girl | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 2400 |
| 50 | The Last Command | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | 2405 |
| 51 | The Unknown | 1927 | Tod Browning | 2461 |
| 52 | The Navigator | 1924 | Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton | 2475 |
| 53 | Show People | 1928 | King Vidor | 2532 |
| 54 | Seventh Heaven | 1927 | Frank Borzage | 2654 |
| 55 | Way Down East | 1920 | D.W. Griffith | 2655 |
| 56 | Foolish Wives | 1922 | Erich von Stroheim | 2668 |
| 57 | The Broadway Melody | 1929 | Harry Beaumont | 2682 |
| 58 | Seven Chances | 1925 | Buster Keaton | 2712 |
| 59 | Blackmail | 1929 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2796 |
| 60 | The Man Who Laughs | 1928 | Paul Leni | 2816 |
| 61 | The Docks of New York | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | 2837 |
| 62 | The Smiling Madame Beudet | 1923 | Germaine Dulac | 2866 |
| 63 | The Ten Commandments | 1923 | Cecil B. DeMille | 2900 |
| 64 | One Week | 1920 | Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton | 2925 |
| 65 | Ménilmontant | 1926 | Dimitri Kirsanoff | 3037 |