| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 45 |
| 2 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 53 |
| 3 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 74 |
| 4 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 97 |
| 5 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 99 |
| 6 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 105 |
| 7 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 143 |
| 8 | Greed | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim | 209 |
| 9 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 223 |
| 10 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 261 |
| 11 | Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance | 264 |
| 12 | The Man with the Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 296 |
| 13 | The Crowd | 1928 | King Vidor | 337 |
| 14 | Nanook of the North | 1922 | Robert J. Flaherty | 364 |
| 15 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 410 |
| 16 | Pandora's Box | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 446 |
| 17 | The Big Parade | 1925 | King Vidor | 461 |
| 18 | The Wind | 1928 | Victor Sjöström | 483 |
| 19 | The Kid | 1921 | Charles Chaplin | 502 |
| 20 | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 591 |
| 21 | The Phantom of the Opera | 1925 | Rupert Julian | 627 |
| 22 | The Jazz Singer | 1927 | Alan Crosland | 666 |
| 23 | Safety Last! | 1923 | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 672 |
| 24 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1924 | Raoul Walsh | 694 |
| 25 | The Freshman | 1925 | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 716 |
| 26 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | 1928 | Charles Reisner | 797 |
| 27 | October | 1928 | Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 839 |
| 28 | Strike | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1086 |
| 29 | Wings | 1927 | William A. Wellman | 1091 |
| 30 | Our Hospitality | 1923 | John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton | 1140 |
| 31 | The Cameraman | 1928 | Edward Sedgwick | 1208 |
| 32 | Foolish Wives | 1922 | Erich von Stroheim | 1211 |
| 33 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 1226 |
| 34 | Faust | 1926 | F.W. Murnau | 1375 |
| 35 | The Navigator | 1924 | Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton | 1415 |
| 36 | Way Down East | 1920 | D.W. Griffith | 1474 |
| 37 | Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | 1927 | Walter Ruttmann | 1552 |
| 38 | Spione | 1928 | Fritz Lang | 1560 |
| 39 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | 1922 | Fritz Lang | 1594 |
| 40 | The Circus | 1928 | Charles Chaplin | 1687 |
| 41 | Siegfried | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1713 |
| 42 | The Lost World | 1925 | Harry O. Hoyt | 1715 |
| 43 | The Broadway Melody | 1929 | Harry Beaumont | 1728 |
| 44 | The Kid Brother | 1927 | Ted Wilde | 1849 |
| 45 | Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages | 1922 | Benjamin Christensen | 1887 |
| 46 | Kriemhild's Revenge | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1908 |
| 47 | The Wedding March | 1928 | Erich von Stroheim | 1936 |
| 48 | Storm over Asia | 1928 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 1992 |
| 49 | La Roue | 1923 | Abel Gance | 2011 |
| 50 | The Sheik | 1921 | George Melford | 2033 |
| 51 | The Golem | 1920 | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener | 2051 |
| 52 | The Ten Commandments | 1923 | Cecil B. DeMille | 2113 |
| 53 | Hallelujah! | 1929 | King Vidor | 2116 |
| 54 | Seven Chances | 1925 | Buster Keaton | 2125 |
| 55 | Mother | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 2133 |
| 56 | The Unknown | 1927 | Tod Browning | 2141 |
| 57 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | 1921 | Rex Ingram | 2155 |
| 58 | The Black Pirate | 1926 | Albert Parker | 2192 |
| 59 | Big Business | 1929 | James W. Horne and Leo McCarey | 2227 |
| 60 | Seventh Heaven | 1927 | Frank Borzage | 2282 |
| 61 | The Love Parade | 1929 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2285 |
| 62 | The Docks of New York | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | 2288 |
| 63 | Blackmail | 1929 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2304 |
| 64 | Applause | 1929 | Rouben Mamoulian | 2350 |
| 65 | The Last Command | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | 2363 |