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 Ай бұрын

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@frankieseward8667 Ай бұрын

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

@seantlewis376 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

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

@TheHorror390 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

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

@Daddymac8686 27 күн бұрын

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

@jc2367 27 күн бұрын

@@Daddymac8686 yes. Especially with surround sound

@danwindler9400 24 күн бұрын

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

@jsbmx2039 Ай бұрын

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

@kendra.1 Ай бұрын

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

@cherrypink1108 Ай 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.

@lifewithmarno Ай бұрын

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

@edkrzywdzinski9121 Ай бұрын

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

@user-jg6pi2si8v Ай бұрын

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

@loganw6156 Ай бұрын

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

@novahoth3406 Ай 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

@tylergoodman3560 Ай бұрын

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

@rubygracemoseley8144 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

Top Gun is definitely a rollercoaster of emotions!

@Constitutionalist76 Ай 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.

@aprilbess4074 Ай бұрын

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

@welcometothemovies9157 Ай бұрын

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

@rebeccamcdermott9259 Ай 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.

@nathanialhiggins168 Ай бұрын

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

@jo.s7993 Ай 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.

@FDemsandbrandon Ай 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

@rubygracemoseley8144 Ай бұрын

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

@Piece-Of-Time Ай бұрын

John Basilone from The Pacific

@frankieseward8667 Ай бұрын

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

@jo.s7993 Ай 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 Ай 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.

@danwindler9400 Ай бұрын

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

@Jeremiah_Rivers76 Ай бұрын

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

@welcometothemovies9157 Ай бұрын

It makes it worse cause his brother is saved

@ThunderBlake Ай бұрын

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

@TyroneSayWTF 29 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)

@iamlegion3093 Ай бұрын

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

@competitionglen Ай бұрын

Archie Hamilton death in Gallipoli.

@isaacmartinez6904 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

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

@rdrock-vd2dw Ай бұрын

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

@Dizzyfam 29 күн бұрын

Not putting jarhead or fury is wild

@rubygracemoseley8144 Ай 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

@wellno7179 Ай бұрын

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

@ADavid42 Ай бұрын

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

@Derlei Ай 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 Ай бұрын

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

@edkrzywdzinski9121 Ай бұрын

Did you hear of the blooper with that scene?

@Timbo_Slice93 26 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

@lregwoc2 29 күн бұрын

The end of Waltz with Bashir was shocking!

@SoldierSpiderx Ай бұрын

Lon Survivor and save private ryan got me

@allisontucker9874 Ай бұрын

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

@wolf11 Ай 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

@Noname-ml6fd Ай бұрын

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

@misakikoko4500 13 күн бұрын

In the '84 version of Red Dawn, the deaths of Powers Boothe(Andy) and Charlie Sheen(Matt) always hurt.

@thegoldenorder1240 Ай бұрын

Independence Day - 1st Lady death

@christopherstuart9190 Ай бұрын

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

@TheSalamanteri 20 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. 😢

@brandonsmith7872 Ай бұрын

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

@user-gu4iw1qw6g 18 күн бұрын

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

@BennySax 7 күн бұрын

Steve McQueen’s character in “Hell is for Heros” (1962)

@mandystewart6737 Ай 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😢

@bigrudd9346 Ай бұрын

54 Massachusetts. The movie Glory.

@jc2367 Ай бұрын

give'em hell 54!

@bigrudd9346 Ай бұрын

@@jc2367 My homie!

@coyotehater Ай 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.

@TheDocV627 25 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 24 күн бұрын

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

@stevieb2612 Ай бұрын

Richard Harris - The wild Geese tops it all for me

@broden4838 Ай бұрын

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

@kandipiatkowski8589 Ай 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.

@christophermerlot3366 Ай бұрын

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

@hardhitter1016 28 күн бұрын

So full metal jacket or apocalypse now doesn't count

@GuiPira 14 күн бұрын

Katsumoto's death at the last battle, "Last Samurai"

@zelgemini24 5 күн бұрын

The most iconic death is on Sgt Elias of Platoon during vietnam war.

@jaredquinney204 Ай бұрын

What a bunch of sad deaths

@josh72456 Ай 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.

@jonathanhahn6955 26 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 :,-( !!!!

@phantasma9391 29 күн бұрын

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

@MrManCave Ай бұрын

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@ItzMzJulez2U Ай 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.

@rubygracemoseley8144 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

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

@rubygracemoseley8144 Ай 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

@Lans-Brawlstars98 Ай бұрын

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@randallcadenhead590 27 күн бұрын

Lieutenant Jack Geoghan in "We Were Soldiers."

@alexhidalgo7110 Ай бұрын

Goose’s death was emotional and shock

@BlackHatCinephile Ай бұрын

🏆🥇

@Reaperguy67 Ай бұрын

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

@beaufonville4454 Ай бұрын

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

@KaimiDaog808 Ай бұрын

What about Tyrone woods and Glenn Doherty in 13 hours 😢

@drayiii980 22 күн бұрын

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

@elkamorales1328 Ай бұрын

Bubba forest gump

@user-op8cg3uz9y 18 күн бұрын

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

@Yaani 11 күн бұрын

Henry from M*A*S*H should be top 3 and John H. miller #2

@eifelitorn 27 күн бұрын

the ending of Stalingrad (1993)..

@bigbird0993 Ай бұрын

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

@TheUniqueTeen Ай бұрын

What about Fury?

@SuperTroll141 Ай бұрын

VON RYANS EXPRESS? Anyone

@1223steffen 23 күн бұрын

Gabriel in the patriot

@aidanhart9871 17 күн бұрын

Clearly this list is in no particular order.

@user-wz7dp2xs4c Ай бұрын

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

@BlackHatCinephile Ай бұрын

🥈

@Reaperguy67 Ай бұрын

@@BlackHatCinephile nobody wants your pointless comment spam

@CulannBurke Ай бұрын

Where are Toye and Guarnere from Band of Brothers!

@RockingRooProduction Ай бұрын

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

@Piece-Of-Time Ай бұрын

They had only lost their legs and they still were laughing

@CulannBurke Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

@@CulannBurke Hoobler got killed with Luger by accident

@latreceluvv8414 Ай бұрын

Red Tails ans that one brad pitt movie 🎥

@Tacofiend92 21 күн бұрын

Stanley mellish?

@dkeist11 28 күн бұрын

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

@kleine.5438 Ай бұрын

I wish Danny from Pearl harbor was on here

@brandonrobinson529 Ай бұрын

😢 RIP Danny

@MrVideos2617 Ай бұрын

I think you forgot Hitler in the basterds

@killinghero Ай бұрын

jenny death from forrest gump

@yuvisingh20 Ай бұрын

Death in tango charlie bollywood movie

@user-wz7dp2xs4c Ай бұрын

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

@elpaiser428 Ай бұрын

He'll no stop monkeying around foo

@user-sq5he1rc1i Ай бұрын

WAR FILM THAT VERY BEST IS 19

@emiliobello2538 Ай бұрын

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

@BlackHatCinephile Ай бұрын

🥉

@emiliobello2538 21 күн бұрын

@@BlackHatCinephileyes

@jorgeadairramos7469 Ай бұрын

Hello good afternoon 😮😮😮😮

@jamesjimmy8716 Ай бұрын

hamburger hill 1987,best.

@zombiTrout Ай бұрын

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

@HeBolieves Ай бұрын

0:52 Brock Lesnar a commie now? 😂

@Lans-Brawlstars98 Ай бұрын

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@Reaperguy67 Ай бұрын

Like begger

@Lans-Brawlstars98 Ай бұрын

@@Reaperguy67 sorry

@Reaperguy67 Ай бұрын

@@Lans-Brawlstars98 by the way. I can tell you like your own comment

@mr.fartman 28 күн бұрын

🏆

@barratt5795 Ай бұрын

All for nothing... lazy american slang

@TheTribalgame Ай 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.

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

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@WatchMojo Ай бұрын

@@CandiceVidito

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@@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.