Oh that's right I got confused and thought Lang directed Nosferatu, which of course isn't the case lol.

1928, the leads:

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer) (Renée Jeanne Falconetti, Eugène Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz)
2. The Crowd (King Vidor) (James Murray, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach)
3. Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks) (Walt Disney)
4. The Circus (Charles Chaplin) (Charles Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Henry Bergman)
5. The Cameraman (Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick) (Buster Keaton, Marceline Day)
6. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Buster Keaton & Charles Reisner) (Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron)
7. The Wind (Victor Sjöström) (Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love)
8. October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Alexandrov) (Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko)
9. The Last Command (Josef von Sternberg) (Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell)
10. In Old Arizona (Irving Cummings) (Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess)

11. The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg) (George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova)
12. The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni) (Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Brandon Hurst)
13. Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein) (Marguerite Gance, Jean Debucourt, Charles Lamy)
14. Show People (King Vidor) (Marion Davies, William Haines)
15. Street Angel (Frank Borzage) (Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Alberto Rabagliati)
16. Spione (Fritz Lang) (Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch)
17. Sadie Thompson (Raoul Walsh) (Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore, Raoul Walsh)
18. The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim) (Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, George Fawcett)
19. Storm over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin) (Valéry Inkijinoff, I. Dedintsev, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Viktor Tsoppi)
20. Lonesome (Paul Fejos) (Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness)

1927, the leads:

1. Metropolis (Fritz Lang) (Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge)
2. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau) (Janet Gaynor, George O'Brien, Margaret Livingston)
3. The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland) (Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Yossele Rosenblatt)
4. Napoléon (Abel Gance) (Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Antonin Artaud, Edmond Van Daële)
5. Wings (William A. Wellman) (Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper)
6. Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage) (Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard)
7. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock) (June Tripp, Malcolm Keen, Ivor Novello)
8. The Unknown (Tod Browning) (Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford)
9. Underworld (Josef von Sternberg) (Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft)
10. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann) (Documentary)

11. It (Clarence G. Badger & Josef von Sternberg) (Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin)
12. The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde & J. A. Howe) (Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston)
13. The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni) (Laura La Plante, Forrest Stanley, Creighton Hale)
14. The End of St. Petersburg (Vsevolod Pudovkin & Mikhail Doller) (Aleksandr Chistiakov, Vera Baranovskaia, Ivan Chuvelev, V. Obolenskii)
15. The King of Kings (Cecil B. DeMille) (H. B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence)
16. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch) (Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer)
17. My Best Girl (Sam Taylor) (Mary Pickford, Charles "Buddy" Rogers)
18. College (Buster Keaton & James W. Horne) (Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Harold Goodwin)
19. The Girl with the Hat Box (Boris Barnet) (Anna Sten, Vladimir Mikhailov, Vladimir Fogel)
20. The Battle of the Century (Clyde Bruckman) (Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Noah Young)

1. The General
2. Faust
3. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
4. The Flesh and the Devil
5. The Black Pirate
6. Mother
7. Menilmontant
8. A Page of Madness
9. Don Juan
10. For Heaven’s Sake
Moana
The Son of the Sheik
3 Bad Men
Battling Butler
The Scarlet Letter

Bruno & Luuk?

1. The General
2. Faust
3. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
4. Flesh and the Devil
5. The Black Pirate
6. Mother
7. A Page of Madness
8. Don Juan
9. Ménilmontant
10. For Heaven's Sake

11. The Scarlet Letter
12. Battling Butler
13. La Bohème
14. Sparrows
15. 3 Bad Men
16. Moana
17. The Son of the Sheik
18. By the Law
19. What Price Glory?
20. The Winning of Barbara Worth

HM's
Beau Geste
Emak-Bakia
The Strong Man
A Sixth Part of the World
The Temptress

1. The General
2. Faust
3. The Black Pirate
4. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
5. Mother
6. Flesh and the Devil
7. A Page of Madness
8. Ménilmontant
9. For Heaven's Sake
10. Don Juan

11. La Bohème
12. The Scarlet Letter
13. Sparrows
14. The Son of the Sheik
15. Beau Geste
16. Battling Butler
17. The Winning of Barbara Worth
18. What Price Glory?
19. The Strong Man
20. By the Law

So:

1. The General - Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
2. Faust - F. W. Murnau
3. The Adventures of Prince Achmed - Lotte Reiniger
4. Flesh and the Devil - Clarence Brown
5. The Black Pirate - Albert Parker
6. Mother - Vsevolod Pudovkin
7. A Page of Madness - Teinosuke Kinugasa
8. Don Juan - Alan Crosland
9. Ménilmontant - Dimitri Kirsanoff
10. For Heaven's Sake - Sam Taylor

11. The Scarlet Letter - Victor Sjöström
12. Moana - Robert J. Flaherty
13. La Bohème - King Vidor
14. Sparrows - William Beaudine
15. What Price Glory? - Raoul Walsh
16. Battling Butler - Buster Keaton
17. The Son of the Sheik - George Fitzmaurice
18. The Winning of Barbara Worth - Henry King
19. 3 Bad Men - John Ford
20. By the Law - Lev Kuleshov

Fine by me.

Looks good.

Good, Tim!

I'm just wondering if with "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" and "A Page of Madness" this high, we're beginning too give to much value to modern-day reception. Especially since neither seems particularly influential (oldest extant full-length animated feature seems somewhat irrelevant, considering animated shorts had long been a popular medium and its style of animation never became very important in the field) and they are placed right above films that were tremendous successes in their day. Other than that, no complaints.

Maybe
1. The General - Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
2. Faust - F. W. Murnau
3. Flesh and the Devil - Clarence Brown
4. The Black Pirate - Albert Parker
5. The Adventures of Prince Achmed - Lotte Reiniger
6. Mother - Vsevolod Pudovkin
7. Don Juan - Alan Crosland
8. Ménilmontant - Dimitri Kirsanoff
9. A Page of Madness - Teinosuke Kinugasa
10. For Heaven's Sake - Sam Taylor

11. The Scarlet Letter - Victor Sjöström
12. Moana - Robert J. Flaherty
13. La Bohème - King Vidor
14. Sparrows - William Beaudine
15. What Price Glory? - Raoul Walsh
16. Battling Butler - Buster Keaton
17. The Son of the Sheik - George Fitzmaurice
18. The Winning of Barbara Worth - Henry King
19. 3 Bad Men - John Ford
20. By the Law - Lev Kuleshov

I will take it, Man.

Agreed.