# Youtube - best tear jerking moments in film.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 17, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282 "2010-02-17T03:10:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/61 "2010-02-20T04:20:19Z")

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I’ve also always been moved by Bernard Hill’s scene in the Two Towers where he says, “No parent should outlive their children.”

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**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/62 "2010-02-20T08:21:44Z")

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> [@Shodan](#):
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> No, you are all wrong. [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px0j1EHF8Y0&feature=fvst) is the one.
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> Regards,  
> Shodan

This is the same thing sung in Arabic :

![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/65TZc-wcxfs/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/65TZc-wcxfs?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque

Aaah, some things are universal.

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**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/63 "2010-02-20T10:02:23Z")

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The [ending of _Terminator 2_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYrcRCg1Rhw&feature=related).

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**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/64 "2010-02-20T15:15:13Z")

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> [@Stephe96](#):
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> I’ve mentioned this one in a previous thread, but good luck holding it together during the final father/daughter scene in _ **In America** _.

That one too…

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**Author:** ![wolf-alice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9e8a1a/32.png) [@wolf-alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf-alice)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/65 "2010-02-20T23:49:42Z")

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I don’t know if it’s meant to set you weeping, but [this scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl6FbeoXeHQ&feature=PlayList&p=792F23154DE9B09F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=14) from The Royal Tenenbaums has me sobbing _every_ bastarding time.

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/66 "2010-02-21T06:50:31Z")

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Seriously?!  
No one has mentioned [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiS8YokFzeY)?

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**Author:** ![Sparrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sparrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparrow)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/67 "2010-02-21T21:07:44Z")

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The final (almost) scene of The Railway Children with Jenny Agutter: “My Daddy! My Daddy!”

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**Author:** ![Lethal\_Babydoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@Lethal\_Babydoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lethal_Babydoll)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/68 "2010-02-23T13:51:28Z")

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> [@Sitnam](#):
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> What? No [Kiwi](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs)?

My God, that’s great! that is so great. i’ll never forget that

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**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/69 "2010-02-23T15:13:13Z")

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> [@Sparrow](#):
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> The final (almost) scene of The Railway Children with Jenny Agutter: “My Daddy! My Daddy!”

How evil of you to have mentioned this. At least you didn’t provide the Youtube link, which was a small mercy. However, your mercy was wasted since I felt compelled to go and look at it anyway! This room is _very_ dusty today.

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