(1) Napoleon (1927; directed by Abel Gance)
(2) Sunrise (1927; directed by F. W. Murnau)
(3) Citizen Kane (1941; directed by Orson Welles)
(4) October (1928; directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Alexandrov)
(5) Grand Illusion (1937; directed by Jean Renoir)
(6) Seven Samurai (1954; directed by Akira Kurosawa)
(7) Greed (1925; directed by Erich von Stroheim)
(8) City Lights (1931; directed by Charles Chaplin)
(9) The Rules of the Game (1939; directed by Jean Renoir)
(10) Young Mr. Lincoln (1939; directed by John Ford)
(11) Amarcord (1974; directed by Federico Fellini)
(12) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928; directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer)
(13) The Gold Rush (1925; directed by Charles Chaplin)
(14) Vertigo (1958; directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
(15) Ugetsu (1953; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi)
(16) Seven Chances (1925; directed by Buster Keaton)
(17) Tokyo Story (1953; directed by Yasujiro Ozu)
(18) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964; directed by Stanley Kubrick)
(19) Ikiru (1952; directed by Akira Kurosawa)
(20) How Green Was My Valley (1941; directed by John Ford)
(21) Pinocchio (1940; directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske)
(22) Man with a Movie Camera (1929; directed by Dziga Vertov)
(23) Psycho (1960; directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
(24) Duck Soup (1933; directed by Leo McCarey)
(25) The Godfather, Part II (1974; directed by Francis Ford Coppola)