1. The Mother and the Whore Jean Eustache (217 minutes)
2. Sátántangó Béla Tarr (450)
3. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Chantal Akerman (201)
4. A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang (237)
5. Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick (184)
6. Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler Fritz Lang (restored version, 297)
7. Edvard Munch Peter Watkins (210)
8. Andrei Rublev Andrei Tarkovsky (205)
9. The Godfather: Part II Francis Ford Coppola (200)
10. Once Upon a Time in America Sergio Leone (229)
11. Histoire(s) du cinéma Jean-Luc Godard (266)
12. Céline and Julie Go Boating Jacques Rivette (192)
13. Out 1 noli me tangere Jacques Rivette (729)
14. Greed Erich von Stroheim (restored version, 239)
15. Chelsea Girls Andy Warhol (210)
16. Fanny and Alexander Ingmar Bergman (188)
17. L’Amour fou Jacques Rivette (252)
18. La Région centrale Michael Snow (180)
19. Grin Without a Cat Chris Marker (240)
20. La Commune (Paris, 1871) Peter Watkins (345)
21. Children of Paradise Marcel Carné (190)
22. The Leopard Luchino Visconti (187)
23. Empire Andy Warhol (485)
24. Shoah Claude Lanzmann (503)
25. The Tree of Wooden Clogs Ermanno Olmi (186)
26. A Touch of Zen King Hu (187)
27. The Traveling Players Theo Angelopoulos (230)
28. L’Argent Marcel L’Herbier (195)
29. The Satin Slipper Manoel de Oliveira (400)
30. Intolerance D.W. Griffith (197)
31. The Birth of a Nation D.W. Griffith (190)
32. Heaven’s Gate Michael Cimino (original cut, 219)
33. The Art of Vision Stan Brakhage (250)
34. The Sorrow and the Pity Marcel Ophüls (251)
35. Hitler: A Film from Germany Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (442)
36. Star Spangled to Death Ken Jacobs (402)
37. Magnolia P.T. Anderson (188)
38. ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx To Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen Michael Snow (270)
39. Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa (207)
40. Napoleon Abel Gance (330)