1920
alphabetically
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Robert Wiene)
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (John S Robertson)
Way Down East (D.W. Griffith) 

1921
alphabetically
The Kid (Charles Chaplin)
The Sheik (George Melford)

1922
alphabetically
Foolish Wives (Von Stroheim)
Nanook of the North (Robert J Flaherty)
Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)

1923
alphabetically
Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton)

1924
alphabetically
The Last Laugh (FW Murnau)
Peter Pan (Herbert Brenon)
Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton)
The Thief of Baghdad (Raoul Walsh) 

1925
alphabetically
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Einsentein)
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin) 
Seven Chances (Buster Keaton) 

1926
alphabetically
Faust (FW Murnau)
The General (Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton)
The Son of the Sheik (George Fitzmaurice)

1927
alphabetically
College (Buster Keaton)
It (Clarence G Badger & Josef Von Sternberg)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau)

1928
alphabetically
The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer)
Wings (William A Wellman)

1929
alphabetically
The Broadway Melody (Harry Beaumont)
The Diary of a Lost Girl (GW Pabst)
Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst)