Top 10 Saddest Deaths in War Movies and TV Shows

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Sometimes Private Ryan just can't be saved. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’ll be looking at the most harrowing and heart wrenching deaths that occurred in military films and television shows. As we’ll be revealing character fates, a spoiler warning is now in effect. Our countdown includes scenes from “Hacksaw Ridge”, “Band of Brothers”, “M*A*S*H” and more! Is there a death in a war film or TV series that completely wrecked you? Share your tales of viewing heartbreak in the comments below.
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  • @WatchMojo
    @WatchMojo16 күн бұрын

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  • @frankieseward8667

    @frankieseward8667

    14 күн бұрын

    Where's China Beach and Tour of Duty? Completely overlooked shows

  • @seantlewis376
    @seantlewis37614 күн бұрын

    I've served in several hot zones, and I don't make a habit of watching war movies, but Bubba on the river's edge in Forrest Gump, while only one scene, was the biggest tear-jerker.

  • @edkrzywdzinski9121

    @edkrzywdzinski9121

    13 күн бұрын

    Yep... for sure. "I wanna go home..."

  • @TheHorror390
    @TheHorror39014 күн бұрын

    When the medic Wade dies in Saving Private Ryan.. makes most of the deaths on this list look like a fun children’s party

  • @jc2367
    @jc236714 күн бұрын

    Black Hawk Down had a bunch of dudes teary eyed in the theater.

  • @Daddymac8686

    @Daddymac8686

    10 күн бұрын

    I still haven't ever seen that movie. Is it worth watching?

  • @jc2367

    @jc2367

    10 күн бұрын

    @@Daddymac8686 yes. Especially with surround sound

  • @danwindler9400

    @danwindler9400

    8 күн бұрын

    @@Daddymac8686 I did, US Forces had got couple of deaths in this movie.

  • @kendra.1
    @kendra.114 күн бұрын

    Albert’s death in All Quiet On The Western Front hit so hard, when Paul died I just cried.

  • @cherrypink1108

    @cherrypink1108

    14 күн бұрын

    I watched a little bit of that movie and what got me is when they called ceasefire they were in enemy territory like it was nothing. Just walking past each other.

  • @novahoth3406
    @novahoth340614 күн бұрын

    A detail about Herny Blake's death. No one was told that's how his story would end. They handed Gary the sheet and told to go in and say what was on it. The reactions were one shot genuine

  • @jsbmx2039
    @jsbmx203914 күн бұрын

    Wades death in saving private Ryan should have been on this.

  • @user-jg6pi2si8v
    @user-jg6pi2si8v14 күн бұрын

    The death of Gomer Pyle in Full Metal Jacket after being constantly bullied shocked me

  • @rubygracemoseley8144
    @rubygracemoseley814414 күн бұрын

    My sister and I saw Top Gun for the first time a couple of years ago with our mom. When Goose died I was shocked. It was so sad and just out of the blue 😭

  • @WatchMojo

    @WatchMojo

    14 күн бұрын

    Top Gun is definitely a rollercoaster of emotions!

  • @Constitutionalist76

    @Constitutionalist76

    14 күн бұрын

    Yeah watching Pete try and get to his best friend and then watching him float with him when the rescue chopper ultimately arrived was sad as hell.

  • @tylergoodman3560
    @tylergoodman356014 күн бұрын

    James... Earn This. Earn It!” Captain Miller. 😢🎉

  • @rebeccamcdermott9259
    @rebeccamcdermott925914 күн бұрын

    Goose's death gets me every single time especially with that sad music accompanying the scene. Elias's death really upset me as well especially as he was a genuinely good guy.

  • @loganw6156
    @loganw615614 күн бұрын

    Medic Wade's death hit MUCH harder than Miller's

  • @lifewithmarno
    @lifewithmarno14 күн бұрын

    Pretty much every death in Saving Private Ryan was devastating. Especially Private Mellish.

  • @edkrzywdzinski9121

    @edkrzywdzinski9121

    13 күн бұрын

    Then that coward Upham goes all tough on German prisoners who surrendered.

  • @frankieseward8667
    @frankieseward866714 күн бұрын

    You guys forgot China Beach and Tour of Duty. Cherry and Mutsadas death were so sad.

  • @nathanialhiggins168
    @nathanialhiggins16814 күн бұрын

    I would also add the implied deaths of the cast of Blackadder Goes Forth series finale.

  • @jo.s7993

    @jo.s7993

    13 күн бұрын

    It was an extraordinary end to a wonderful series. As they died going "over the top", only to fade away was gut wrenching. Then for the scene to come back into view as a field of poppies, to the sound of birds singing was an absolute gut punch. A stunningly effective way to pay respects to the fallen of WW1, without a single word needing to be said.

  • @aprilbess4074
    @aprilbess407414 күн бұрын

    In War Horse so many different characters and horses perished I cried so hard.

  • @welcometothemovies9157

    @welcometothemovies9157

    14 күн бұрын

    When his horse companion gets beaten down and has to be shot. Makes you hate the German army so much.

  • @jo.s7993
    @jo.s799313 күн бұрын

    Sergeant Elias's death in Platoon, completely broke my heart. Of all the deaths on this list, his & Gooses death were the hardest to bare.

  • @GraphicJ
    @GraphicJ14 күн бұрын

    Darn it Mojo, good list but ever so sad. Reminds me why we hate war so much and the warmongers who want to send our sons to the slaughter.

  • @davestokes9093
    @davestokes909314 күн бұрын

    Henry Blake’s death was unlikely, unpredictable, and reactions of the cast were real as I have heard the cast on Leno or Carson or wherever, say that when Radar came in he was supposed to say other lines. No one except Radar and the director knew

  • @Piece-Of-Time
    @Piece-Of-Time13 күн бұрын

    John Basilone from The Pacific

  • @TyroneSayWTF
    @TyroneSayWTF13 күн бұрын

    *GLARING OMISSION:* The death on Iwo Jima of *REAL* Medal of Honor recipient - marine sargeant John Basilone in the HBO mini-series 'The Pacific' (i.e. follow-up series to Band of Brothers)

  • @rubygracemoseley8144
    @rubygracemoseley814414 күн бұрын

    Well good job with this video I teared up multiple times watching it

  • @ThunderBlake
    @ThunderBlake14 күн бұрын

    Whole death scene of Mellish in Saving Private Ryan; men in moment like this I really wish this world would not exist.

  • @Jeremiah_Rivers76
    @Jeremiah_Rivers7614 күн бұрын

    Lance Cpl. Blake saving that pilot, while questionable, was still a heroic yet life-costing decision. Godspeed, Lance Cpl. Blake!

  • @welcometothemovies9157

    @welcometothemovies9157

    14 күн бұрын

    It makes it worse cause his brother is saved

  • @iamlegion3093
    @iamlegion309314 күн бұрын

    Saving Private Ryan - German stabs the Soldier while Upham is on the stairwell listening. The soldiers pleas still haunt me

  • @danwindler9400
    @danwindler940014 күн бұрын

    Can you do Saddest Deaths in Disaster Movies and TV Shows?

  • @isaacmartinez6904
    @isaacmartinez690414 күн бұрын

    All Quiet On The Western Front and Casualties Of War made me cry. One of the few movies that made me sad and cry.

  • @smicksite
    @smicksite14 күн бұрын

    ...Gallipoli (1981) ...Archy's last sprint from the trenches "...what are your legs? ...springs: steel springs" 😢

  • @rubygracemoseley8144
    @rubygracemoseley814414 күн бұрын

    I have never seen 1917 but my older sister has but apparently Thomas Blake looks a whole lot like our brother so it was like traumatizing watching a person who looks a whole lot like her brother die

  • @competitionglen
    @competitionglen14 күн бұрын

    Archie Hamilton death in Gallipoli.

  • @Derlei
    @Derlei14 күн бұрын

    Sgt Elias death pose in Platoon's movie poster is on the of the most iconic death pose in movie fandom. It serve as a guide to how characters should die when shot in the back and has been referenced or parodied many time in many other settings especially in football when player wanna get dramatic when being fouled from the back

  • @rebeccamcdermott9259

    @rebeccamcdermott9259

    14 күн бұрын

    I have that poster framed in my living room. It's such a beautiful shot even though it's incredibly sad.

  • @edkrzywdzinski9121

    @edkrzywdzinski9121

    13 күн бұрын

    Did you hear of the blooper with that scene?

  • @Dizzyfam
    @Dizzyfam13 күн бұрын

    Not putting jarhead or fury is wild

  • @rdrock-vd2dw
    @rdrock-vd2dw14 күн бұрын

    These were good scenes but i wish you'd also included the final scene of the German movie from 1992 called 'Stalingrad'!

  • @Timbo_Slice93
    @Timbo_Slice9310 күн бұрын

    Clay Spencer from SEAL Team was pretty heart wrenching. the dude was just trying to stop a veteran he was helping from committing suicide and a guard shows up at the wrong time and holds Clay at gun point and shoots him cause he thought Clay was gonna raise the gun he took from the veteran and aim it at the guard. thats also a death that shouldnt have happened but Max Theriot was getting ready to do another show called Fire Country

  • @wellno7179
    @wellno717914 күн бұрын

    Clean’s death in Apocalypse Now should’ve been on this list.

  • @wolf11
    @wolf1114 күн бұрын

    What about the death in that Michael j. Fox movie with Sean Penn where that young girl is brutally rapes and then she's finally killed. I mean I feel that was one of the most shocking deaths in history of Cinema because you know she didn't ask for that life to be that way. And you know that was just so disturbing to watch and that was the only movie that I've ever known that will ever have. Probably Michael j. Fox with the rape scene in it even though he didn't do the scene. Sean Penn did but still I forget what the movies called but you know I'm talking about but it's a very brutal movie. I mean it is wow I'm not going to spell to spoil it. It would be the understatement. You just have to see it to believe it. Cuz yeah but I feel her dying one of the saddest death in war movies and I can't believe you left it off the list. That should have been number one

  • @coyotehater
    @coyotehater14 күн бұрын

    No mention of Lt Doug Roberts off screen death in the classic WW2 movie Mister Roberts? I’ve watched the movie at least 30 times over the past 50 years, & it still shakes me up when Ensign Pulver says those 4 words: Mister Roberts is dead.

  • @allisontucker9874
    @allisontucker987414 күн бұрын

    Desmond Doss was from Lynchburg, VA which is 45 minutes north from me

  • @Noname-ml6fd
    @Noname-ml6fd14 күн бұрын

    The death of Thi Oanh (played by Thuy Thu Le) in Casualties of War (1989) should definitely be on this list.

  • @lregwoc2
    @lregwoc213 күн бұрын

    The end of Waltz with Bashir was shocking!

  • @TheSalamanteri
    @TheSalamanteri4 күн бұрын

    Sergeant Hietanen in Finnish movie The Unknown Soldier (Louhimies version). First he lost his eyes while trying to save rookie and then ruzzians attacks the ambulance full of wounded and takes fire and then got shot while trying help others with out sight. 😢

  • @ADavid42
    @ADavid4214 күн бұрын

    Every death in Apocalypse Now, especially Tyrone 'Clean' Miller.

  • @mandystewart6737
    @mandystewart673714 күн бұрын

    These were great BUT what about Josh Hartnett in Pearl Harbor? If you've not seen that scene, you gotta! It's beautifully heartbreaking😢

  • @christopherstuart9190
    @christopherstuart919014 күн бұрын

    No offense, but how this video doesn't specifically bring up the death of Laurence Fishburne's Clean character in "Apocalypse Now"?

  • @user-gu4iw1qw6g
    @user-gu4iw1qw6g2 күн бұрын

    You should include Archie's death in the final scene of Gallipoli (1981).

  • @SoldierSpiderx
    @SoldierSpiderx14 күн бұрын

    Lon Survivor and save private ryan got me

  • @bigrudd9346
    @bigrudd934614 күн бұрын

    54 Massachusetts. The movie Glory.

  • @jc2367

    @jc2367

    14 күн бұрын

    give'em hell 54!

  • @bigrudd9346

    @bigrudd9346

    14 күн бұрын

    @@jc2367 My homie!

  • @TheDocV627
    @TheDocV6278 күн бұрын

    i forget the name of the movie, but that one movie where the father has the son pretend everything is a game and ends up dying but when his son his rescued, he thinks they won the game.

  • @arniewingco3561

    @arniewingco3561

    8 күн бұрын

    I reckon you're thinking of Life is Beautiful, a great movie. That ending was truly sad

  • @brandonsmith7872
    @brandonsmith787213 күн бұрын

    When the AT-ST hit those two ewoks and buddy tries to wake the other one up.

  • @kandipiatkowski8589
    @kandipiatkowski858914 күн бұрын

    I'm not much of a war movie buff, but the saddest death I know in a war movie (I guess it's more of a boot camp than war) is Vincent D'Onofrio's character in Full Metal Jacket.

  • @thegoldenorder1240
    @thegoldenorder124014 күн бұрын

    Independence Day - 1st Lady death

  • @josh72456
    @josh7245614 күн бұрын

    I've not seen Homeland and All Quiet On The Western Front. I think with M.A.S.H, I saw the first two series.

  • @christophermerlot3366
    @christophermerlot336614 күн бұрын

    Am I the only one who got this wrapped in an ad for a war-based video game?

  • @hardhitter1016
    @hardhitter101611 күн бұрын

    So full metal jacket or apocalypse now doesn't count

  • @phantasma9391
    @phantasma939113 күн бұрын

    A sad one for me was Wade's death in Saving private Ryan 🥺.

  • @jonathanhahn6955
    @jonathanhahn695510 күн бұрын

    Fives (Arc Trooper), Tech (Clone Force 99), & Gregor (Clone Commando) They Each Died In “Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Season 6/Lost Missions), Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Season 2), & Star Wars: Rebels (Season 4)” Good Soldiers, Follow Orders :,-( !!!!

  • @broden4838
    @broden483814 күн бұрын

    You forgot Setsuko from Grave of the Fireflies (since, despite being a civilian girl in WWII Japan, she died so tragically)

  • @ItzMzJulez2U
    @ItzMzJulez2U13 күн бұрын

    I still can’t watch the war scenes of Samuel and Tristin in ‘Legends of the Fall.’ I wish I’d never watched ‘The Green Berets’ with John Wayne.

  • @stevieb2612
    @stevieb261214 күн бұрын

    Richard Harris - The wild Geese tops it all for me

  • @drayiii980
    @drayiii9806 күн бұрын

    You seriously didn't include Irwin Wade from Saving Private Ryan? Thanks for screwing up another list WatchMojo

  • @randallcadenhead590
    @randallcadenhead59011 күн бұрын

    Lieutenant Jack Geoghan in "We Were Soldiers."

  • @jaredquinney204
    @jaredquinney20414 күн бұрын

    What a bunch of sad deaths

  • @user-op8cg3uz9y
    @user-op8cg3uz9yКүн бұрын

    William Wallace s' death is the saddest in the movie Braveheart after its John h. Miller

  • @KaimiDaog808
    @KaimiDaog80814 күн бұрын

    What about Tyrone woods and Glenn Doherty in 13 hours 😢

  • @beaufonville4454
    @beaufonville445414 күн бұрын

    Where's the "Top 20 Best Supervillain Teams" video?! #WatchMojo

  • @rubygracemoseley8144
    @rubygracemoseley814414 күн бұрын

    I spent most of Saving Private Ryan crying. Basically from five minutes into the movie and on and off the rest of the very long movie I had tears streaming down my face or in my eyes

  • @WatchMojo

    @WatchMojo

    14 күн бұрын

    "Saving Private Ryan" has that effect on many of us. What particular moments resonated with you the most?

  • @rubygracemoseley8144

    @rubygracemoseley8144

    14 күн бұрын

    @@WatchMojo I don’t remember specific moments too too well. It’s been over a year since I saw it. But Captain Miller’s death, the opening scene where a huge amount of people die, the ending when Private Ryan is finally safe but still has to grieve the loss of his brothers and friends…The whole movie really

  • @Fortnitehe

    @Fortnitehe

    14 күн бұрын

    ​@@WatchMojo MOJO make a family guy video if you want to

  • @bigbird0993
    @bigbird099314 күн бұрын

    Von Ryan's express frank Sinatra operation day break the two Czech resistance fighters and brave heart just to name a few

  • @eifelitorn
    @eifelitorn11 күн бұрын

    the ending of Stalingrad (1993)..

  • @TheUniqueTeen
    @TheUniqueTeen14 күн бұрын

    What about Fury?

  • @elkamorales1328
    @elkamorales132814 күн бұрын

    Bubba forest gump

  • @aidanhart9871
    @aidanhart987122 сағат бұрын

    Clearly this list is in no particular order.

  • @alexhidalgo7110
    @alexhidalgo711014 күн бұрын

    Goose’s death was emotional and shock

  • @BlackHatCinephile

    @BlackHatCinephile

    14 күн бұрын

    🏆🥇

  • @Reaperguy67

    @Reaperguy67

    14 күн бұрын

    ​@@BlackHatCinephile your comments are pointless spam and it's sad that you don't get it

  • @MrManCave
    @MrManCave14 күн бұрын

    👍🏾🔥🔥🔥

  • @dkeist11
    @dkeist1112 күн бұрын

    Ad read for a war game was.... not good, after talking about the horror of war

  • @SuperTroll141
    @SuperTroll14114 күн бұрын

    VON RYANS EXPRESS? Anyone

  • @Tacofiend92
    @Tacofiend925 күн бұрын

    Stanley mellish?

  • @CulannBurke
    @CulannBurke14 күн бұрын

    Where are Toye and Guarnere from Band of Brothers!

  • @RockingRooProduction

    @RockingRooProduction

    14 күн бұрын

    Thankfully the survived their wounds. You can see Guarnere during the interviews on BoB.

  • @Piece-Of-Time

    @Piece-Of-Time

    13 күн бұрын

    They had only lost their legs and they still were laughing

  • @CulannBurke

    @CulannBurke

    13 күн бұрын

    Yeah, but they were barely able to move and they were losing so much blood. I read somewhere that Toye died later from his injuries so I would have assumed Guarnere did too. Most of the aftermath of Episode 7 I tuned out because I was heartbroken by their deaths, as well as Muck, Penkala and the man who accidentally killed himself with the Luger.

  • @Piece-Of-Time

    @Piece-Of-Time

    13 күн бұрын

    @@CulannBurke man, Guarnere literally appears in interviews in the beginning of each episode, at the age of 78, how could you think that he had died. Unless you didn't finish the show, in the ending speech of veterans their names are revealed, Bill is one of them. If you didn't finish yet, make sure to do it, this last speech is heartbreaking

  • @Piece-Of-Time

    @Piece-Of-Time

    13 күн бұрын

    @@CulannBurke Hoobler got killed with Luger by accident

  • @latreceluvv8414
    @latreceluvv841414 күн бұрын

    Red Tails ans that one brad pitt movie 🎥

  • @MrVideos2617
    @MrVideos261714 күн бұрын

    I think you forgot Hitler in the basterds

  • @1223steffen
    @1223steffen7 күн бұрын

    Gabriel in the patriot

  • @user-wz7dp2xs4c
    @user-wz7dp2xs4c14 күн бұрын

    Can you please do a top 10 planet of the apes moments from the new franchise?

  • @BlackHatCinephile

    @BlackHatCinephile

    14 күн бұрын

    🥈

  • @Reaperguy67

    @Reaperguy67

    14 күн бұрын

    ​@@BlackHatCinephile nobody wants your pointless comment spam

  • @kleine.5438
    @kleine.543814 күн бұрын

    I wish Danny from Pearl harbor was on here

  • @brandonrobinson529

    @brandonrobinson529

    14 күн бұрын

    😢 RIP Danny

  • @killinghero
    @killinghero14 күн бұрын

    jenny death from forrest gump

  • @yuvisingh20
    @yuvisingh2014 күн бұрын

    Death in tango charlie bollywood movie

  • @user-sq5he1rc1i
    @user-sq5he1rc1i14 күн бұрын

    WAR FILM THAT VERY BEST IS 19

  • @jamesjimmy8716
    @jamesjimmy871614 күн бұрын

    hamburger hill 1987,best.

  • @user-wz7dp2xs4c
    @user-wz7dp2xs4c14 күн бұрын

    Can you please do a top 10 moments from planet of the apes trilogy

  • @elpaiser428

    @elpaiser428

    14 күн бұрын

    He'll no stop monkeying around foo

  • @emiliobello2538
    @emiliobello253814 күн бұрын

    Close should have won Best International Feature last year over All Quiet on The Western Front

  • @BlackHatCinephile

    @BlackHatCinephile

    14 күн бұрын

    🥉

  • @emiliobello2538

    @emiliobello2538

    5 күн бұрын

    @@BlackHatCinephileyes

  • @zombiTrout
    @zombiTrout14 күн бұрын

    I thought Wade’s death in SPR was sadder. And Hacksaw Ridge was crap.

  • @jorgeadairramos7469
    @jorgeadairramos746914 күн бұрын

    Hello good afternoon 😮😮😮😮

  • @blamerebel
    @blamerebel14 күн бұрын

    0:52 Brock Lesnar a commie now? 😂

  • @barratt5795
    @barratt579514 күн бұрын

    All for nothing... lazy american slang

  • @Fortnitehe
    @Fortnitehe14 күн бұрын

    Every like this gets comment I will donate to the homeless

  • @Reaperguy67

    @Reaperguy67

    14 күн бұрын

    Like begger

  • @Fortnitehe

    @Fortnitehe

    14 күн бұрын

    @@Reaperguy67 sorry

  • @Reaperguy67

    @Reaperguy67

    14 күн бұрын

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  • @mr.fartman

    @mr.fartman

    12 күн бұрын

    🏆

  • @TheTribalgame
    @TheTribalgame14 күн бұрын

    You seriously made a video about sad deaths just to shill some mobile game? I lose more and more respect for you all the time.

  • @FlowerPup_AZ
    @FlowerPup_AZ14 күн бұрын

    Unsubbing. I pay money for premium so I don't get ads.

  • @CandiceVidito

    @CandiceVidito

    14 күн бұрын

    🤣😂🤣😂Don't let the virtual door hit ya on the way out! And no need to announce your departure. This isn't an airport

  • @WatchMojo

    @WatchMojo

    14 күн бұрын

    @@CandiceVidito

  • @FlowerPup_AZ

    @FlowerPup_AZ

    14 күн бұрын

    @@CandiceVidito wow did you come up with that all on your own? You must be the only person in the world that doesn't mind throwing their $$ down the drain. They charge more than Netflix.

  • @CandiceVidito

    @CandiceVidito

    14 күн бұрын

    @@FlowerPup_AZ I don't have premium and I don't pay money to get rid of ads. That's just stupid thinking on your part there sister.

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