1. The Big Parade (1925)
2. The Singing Fool (1928)
3. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
4. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
5. Way Down East (1920)
6. The Gold Rush (1925)
7. The Ten Commandments (1923)
8. The Covered Wagon (1923)
9. Wings (1927) (unknown gross)
10. Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920) (tie)
11. Aloma of the South Seas (1926) (tie)
12. The Jazz Singer (1927) (tie)
13. The Broadway Melody (1929)
14. The Kid (1921)
    
    Also in the Pre-Sound Era:
    
    The Birth of a Nation (1915)
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)

1920: Way Down East (1920)
1921: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
1922: N/A
1923:The Ten Commandments (1923)
1924: N/A
1925: The Big Parade (1925)
1926: Aloma of the South Seas (1926)
1927: The Jazz Singer (1927)
1928: The Singing Fool (1928)
1929: The Broadway Melody (1929)

1. Gone With The Wind (1939)
2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
3. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
4. Frankenstein (1931)
5. Tom Sawyer (1930)
6. King Kong (1933)
7. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
8. Hell's Angels (1930)
9. How to Be a Detective (1936)
10. Ingagi (1930)
    
11. San Francisco (1936)
12. Maytime (1937)

1930: Tom Sawyer (1930) or Hell's Angels (1930)
1931: Frankenstein (1931)
1932: N/A
1933: King Kong (1933)
1934: It Happened One Night (1934)
1935: Top Hat (1935)
1936: How to Be a Detective (1936)
1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
1938: The Dawn Patrol (1938), You Can't Take It With You (1938), or Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
1939: Gone With The Wind (1939)

1. Bambi (1942)
2. Pinocchio (1940)
3. Song of the South (1946)
4. Samson and Delilah (1949)
5. Fantasia (1940)
6. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
7. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
8. Duel in the Sun (1946)
9. This Is the Army (1943)
10. The Jolson Story (1946)
11. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
12. Sergeant York (1941)
13. Going My Way (1944)
14. Mom and Dad (1945) (tie)
15. Forever Amber (1947) (tie)

1940: Pinocchio (1940)
1941: Sergeant York (1941)
1942: Bambi (1942)
1943: This Is the Army (1943)
1944: Going My Way (1944)
1945: The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
1946: Song of the South (1946)
1947: Forever Amber (1947)
1948: The Snake Pit (1948)
1949: Samson and Delilah (1949)

1. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
2. Peter Pan (1953)
3. Cinderella (1950)
4. The Ten Commandments (1956)
5. Ben-Hur (1959)
6. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
7. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
8. South Pacific (1958) (tie)
9. From Here to Eternity (1953) (tie)
10. The Robe (1953) (tie)
11. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) (tie)
12. Giant (1956) (tie)

1950: Cinderella (1950)
1951: Quo Vadis (1951)
1952: The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
1953: Peter Pan (1953)
1954: White Christmas (1954) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) (tie)
1955: Lady and the Tramp (1955)
1956: The Ten Commandments (1956)
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
1958: South Pacific (1958)
1959: Ben-Hur (1959)

1. The Sound of Music (1965)
2. 101 Dalmatians (1961)
3. The Jungle Book (1967)
4. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
5. The Graduate (1967)
6. Mary Poppins (1964) (tie)
7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (tie)
8. My Fair Lady (1964)
9. Thunderball (1965)
10. Funny Girl (1968)
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
12. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
13. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
14. Cleopatra (1963)

1960: Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
1961: 101 Dalmatians (1961)
1962: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (or The Longest Day (1962))
1963: Cleopatra (1963)
1964: Mary Poppins (1964)
1965: The Sound of Music (1965)
1966: Hawaii (1966) (or The Bible (1966))
1967: The Jungle Book (1967)
1968: Funny Girl (1968)
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

1. Star Wars (1977)
2. Jaws (1975)
3. The Exorcist (1973)
4. Grease (1978)
5. The Sting (1973)
6. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
7. The Godfather (1972)
8. Superman (1978)
9. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977/80)
10. Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
11. Blazing Saddles (1974)
12. Rocky (1976)
13. The Towering Inferno (1974)
14. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
15. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

1970: Love Story (1970)
1971: Billy Jack (1971)
1972: The Godfather (1972)
1973: The Exorcist (1973)
1974: Blazing Saddles (1974)
1975: Jaws (1975)
1976: Rocky (1976)
1977: Star Wars (1977)
1978: Grease (1978)
1979: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

1. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
2. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
3. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
4. Batman (1989)
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
6. Ghostbusters (1984)
7. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
8. Back to the Future (1985)
9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
10. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

1. Titanic (1997)
2. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
3. Jurassic Park (1993)
4. Forrest Gump (1994)
5. The Lion King (1994)
6. Independence Day (1996)
7. The Sixth Sense (1999)
8. Home Alone (1990)
9. Men in Black (1997)
10. Toy Story 2 (1999)

1990: Home Alone (1990)
1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
1992: Aladdin (1992)
1993: Jurassic Park (1993)
1994: Forrest Gump (1994)
1995: Toy Story (1995)
1996: Independence Day (1996)
1997:Titanic (1997)
1998: Saving Private Ryan (1998)
1999: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

1. Avatar (2009)
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
3. Shrek 2 (2004)
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
5. Spider-Man (2002)
6. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
7. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
9. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
10. The Passion of the Christ (2004)