The moment in The Young Victoria where Princess Victoria inherits the throne. Link. A second hit just 2 minutes later when she goes into her first Privy Council.

 

From the first season of West Wing, Toby goes to a funeral. Remains one of my favorite scenes from the series.

The singing from King Arthur (2004). Especially in the context of the scenes before and after it.

The whole ending sequence from Last of the Mohicans. Hair raising. And that music.

A speech from Network (1976).

The final scene from Deep Impact.

The ending of "I Origins" (don't watch unless you watched the movie, spoils everything and makes no sense besides).

Various moments from the Cosmos tv show made me misty eyed (science, fuck yeah).

Also, while I didn't very much enjoy the Hobbit trilogy, the first time you hear the Shire theme music invokes such nostalgia and happyness for me, like coming home after being away for years.

 

In King Kong (the remake with Jack Black). I saw it with my aunt and cousin when I was younger and I cried when King Kong died.

In the Lovely Bones, the entire third act. This movie made me cry and question the meaning of life. It is still the saddest movie I have ever seen.

 

Feanor brought up King Arthur, and I will admit that the singing scene is powerful, but imo, not as powerful as this one, in which Arthur is joined by his knights, but as equally free men this time, on his presumably mad and suicidal war against the Saxons.

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Also, King Arthur is memorable for its amazing Evil Dumbledore portrayal.

 

When Uncle Ben spirit helps Peter fights the symbionte off in Spectacular Spiderman. (that's only the end of the scene though)

Lion King's classical scene.

Blackadder goes Over Top and FREEDOM are really touching moments already mentioned.

I'm a crybaby, so there are many more that I can't remember now.

 

I would second Mufasa's death scene.

AtLA's Zhao and Zuko Agni kai. In terms of action it wasn't anything spectacular, and Avatar has given us some of the most memorable fights in animation, but damn that build-up is great and one really gets a deeper look into Zuko's character and the conflict brewing in him. At this point in the show he was an antagonist, but he gains sympathy because despite being an exiled prince with nothing to lose he shows mercy to a downed opponent and proves himself to be an honourable character.

 

I can't think of anything, holy shit I think I may be a sociopath.

 

Arthur drawing the sword from the stone in Excalibur. Actually, quite a few scenes in that film.

A few scenes in Apocalypse Now, like the Ride of the Valkyries helicopter assault.

The Sicilian scene with Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper in True Romance.

The various obelisk discovery scenes in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

When Sarah finally emerges from underground in The Descent.

The temple training sequence in The 36th Chamber of Shaolin.

Pretty much all the training montages and final fights in Rocky films.

And many more. It would take too long to list them all.

 

When Gandalf rides out onto the Pelennor Fields to rescue Faramir's force retreating from Osgiliath.

 

The final fight scene in We Were Soldiers (mostly because of the song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuaSi-H0oGY

Faramir's attack on Osgiliath and Pippin's song.

 

The ending of the Philosopher's Stone.

I remember being a kid still when the very first movie came out. Cue the orchestral music just as the train rolls out of the station, overlooking Hogwarts in the distance--very few scenes compared to that moment.

 

Buffy stabbing Angel right through the hearth to stop Acathla despite knowing he was back. (I admit you need to be really invested in the characters to be really affected by it)

And when Tara got shot and her blood splattered on Willow. That was pretty harsh.

Don't let me get started on that Joyce seen. T.T

Aside from that not the Red Wedding itself (it was pretty harsh as well) but the scene where Catelyn begged Walder Frey to at least let her son go. Man... She's a great actress.

 

Inception's grow old together scene. Hans Zimmer did a marvelous job. (That movie also gave me a health fear of seeing Marion Cotillard in movies, but that is another story.)

And seconding Paranoid Android's opinion on the docking scene in Interstellar.

Star Trek DS9. I caught a glimpse of this scene. It got me hooked into Star Trek, and also helped me greatly with learning English, my second language - Patrick Stewart (& crew) was practically my English tutor.

For animation there are:
The Batman/Superman Adventure opening.

Evangelion has many for me, but in particular:
The fight with Sahaquiel, both the original tv version and the Rebuild version. I like the original better, though.
The fight with Zeruel, the original and the Rebuild version, and Rebuild's I will give you anything scene.

 

I can't find a clip of it at present, but the finale to 'A Late Quartet' is one of the most moving scenes I've ever seen. Christopher Walken delivers the most dignified yet emotional monologue you could imagine. The whole movie is good, if a little depressing, but the final scene is just incredible.

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Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman and two others who I can't recall off the top of my head are members of a world famous string quartet. They're planning their next season when Walken is diagnosed with Parkinsons. This kicks off a whole host of tensions that have been bubbling under the surface of the group for years, but it all culminates in them kicking off their season with a particularly tricky movement. It's supposed to be Walken's farewell gig...but half way through his fingers give out. He stops the performance, stands up, apologises to the audience and the quartet, and makes way for his replacement.

PETER:
Ladies and gentlemen, I have to stop. My friends are playing way too fast, I can't keep up. It's Beethoven's fault, insisting we play... Opus 131 attacca, without pause. I need a pause. Nina Lee. (APPLAUSE) Wonderful cellist...friend of the Fugue...will replace me for the remainder
of tonight's program, and, hopefully, for much longer than that. Nina, please.

It has been my pleasure to play for you through the years...together with
Robert, Daniel, Juliette.

Thank you. Thank you.

And for Miriam...My wife, is out there somewhere...I thank you, I miss you, I think of you.

 

I just watched Interstellar and that shit just topped the chart straight away, man.

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When they come back from their first extra terrestrial landing and realized they've been gone for 27 years... going through their messages. When he let himself go so that Drand can escape the blackhole. Or again when he met his daughter in the Cooper Station.

Plus the music and images were amazing. Completely stunning.

 

I watched Interstellar at the iMax on my birthday. It really doesn't get better than that.

 

Almost forgot. During the last moments of Buffy, where they're running from the collapsing school. Anya dies, and noone realizes it and they keep running. You see Anya lying there on the floor amidst dead. Only after they stop running that they notice that she's not with them...

 

Moment in Hercules where he becomes a god: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts_WDlgNMoo

Edit: thinking of all the best LotR moments:

Frodo seeing Arwen for the first time. Link.

Galadriel refusing the ring. Link.

Boromir recognises Aragorn as his King. Link.

Gandalf returns. Link.

Elves arrive at Helm's Deep. Link.

Helm's Deep final charge. Link.

Arwen foresees her son. Link.

Gandalf arrives at Minas Tirith. Link.

The lighting of the beacons. Link.

Gandalf drives the Nazgul back. Link.

Elrond gives Aragorn Anduril. Link.

The muster of Rohan. Link.

Charge of the Rohirrim. Link.

Mumakil charge. Link.

Eagles arrive. Link.

Sauron defeated. Link.

Aragorn's coronation. Link.

 

Pokemon: The Movie. First ten minutes where it shows why the Doctor was working on clones, and child Mewtwo's reaction and subsequent subconscious burial of denial and anger as he is drugged into a coma. Didn't realise the movie was so deep until I watched it again recently.

How do I do spoiler tags?

Edit,

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Essentially, Dr. Fuji's daughter, Amber, dies, he tries to save her by cloning her. Fuji's wife leaves him because of his obsession. All of the clones meet together in Mewtwo's psychic realm. By the time the friendship begins, all of the clones, including Dr. Fuji's daughter Ambertwo, die.

Like, they're children, and they're fucking talking about death.

Mewtwo, "Why do you have to go?"

Ambertwo, "I don't know... Thank you for caring. But don't cry Mewtwo, you're alive, and life's wonderful."

Mewtwo goes through the stages of grief, but is stuck in rage because the scientists comatose him in that instant. Like, Mewtwo isn't insane. He was just traumatised as a kid, and then as an adolescent, that you pity him. You pity the pokemon that can crush the world under his heel, which is what made that moment powerful.

 

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