1920s

Pre-1920:
1. Voyage to the Moon (Méliès)
2. Broken Blossoms (Griffith)
3. The Cameraman's Revenge (Starewicz)
4. The Birth of a Nation (Griffith)
5. Intolerance (Griffith)
6. The Great Train Robbery (Porter)
7. The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (Cabanne/Emerson)
8. The Golden Beetle (de Chomón)
9t. The Blue Bird (Tourneur)
9t. Les Vampires (Feuillade)


1920-1923:
1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene)
2. Nosferatu (Murnau)
3. Our Hospitality (Blystone/Keaton)
4. Safety Last! (Newmeyer/Taylor)
5. One Week (Cline/Keaton)
6. The Kid (Chaplin)
7. The Goat (Keaton/St. Clair)
8. Neighbors (Cline/Keaton)


1924-1925:
1. Sherlock Jr. (Keaton)
2. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
3. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
4. The Last Laugh (Murnau)
5. Seven Chances (Keaton)
6. Greed (von Stroheim)
7. Strike (Eisenstein)
8. The Thief of Bagdad (Walsh)
9. Girl Shy (Newmeyer/Taylor)
10. The Phantom of the Opera (Julian)

Honorable mention:
Die Nibelungen (Lang)


1926-1927:
1. Metropolis (Lang)
2. Sunrise (Murnau)
3. The General (Bruckman/Keaton)
4. Napoleon (Gance)
5. Faust (Murnau)
6. The Love of Jeanne Ney (Pabst)
7t. The Unknown (Browning)
7t. The Lodger (Hitchcock)
9. The Kid Brother (Wilde/Howe)

1928-1929:
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
2. The Man with the Movie Camera (Vertov)
3. Un chien andalou (Buñuel)
4. The Circus (Chaplin)
5. Pandora's Box (Pabst)
6. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Reisner)
7. The Cameraman (Sedgwick)
8t. The Man who Laughs (Leni)
8t. Big Business (Horne/McCarey)
10. The Crowd (Vidor)

Near misses:
The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (Florey/Vorkapich)
October (Aleksandrov/Eisenstein)
Diary of a Lost Girl (Pabst)