Over my short lifespan, there have been a few moments in movie history particularly provocative. The most emotional for me would have to be Hazel's death in Watership Down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KSIeQUgT4

The scene's about 1:45 in.

Which scenes would you consider to be the most emotionally provoking for you?

The point where Andy Dufreisne escapes Shawshank prison in The Shawshank Redemption.
Pretty much all of Forrest Gump, but particularily when he says:
"I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is."
Finally, the point in LOTR the two towers, in which Sam tells Frodo it's going to be alright etc.

Oh and in Saints and Soldiers, when he tries to give the dying guy his cigarette (it'll make sense if you watch it, and you should)

There is a lot from Apocalypse Now I would like to mention but I think I have to go with the Ride of the Valkyries scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx7XNb3Q9Ek

Sends tingles down my spine.

In Schindler's List at the end where Oscar keeps thinking of things he could have sold or gotten rid of to save more people...he came a long way from a man who only wanted a much money as possible...to a man who couldn't get rid of it fast enough. Truly powerful.

The end of Casablanca, the Bogart version.

The opening/ending to Saving Private Ryan. Truly moving, the sacrifice of many for just one man.

Got to be the soliloquy of Roy Batty in Blade Runner, just before he expires on the rooftop.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams, glitter in the dark near Tannhauser Gate.
All those... moments will be lost... in time... like tears... in rain.
Time... to die."

My roomates' emotoinal moment, is when Data sacrifices himself so as to save the Enterprise, in Star Trek - Nemesis.

Lots of bits from Kingdom of Heaven. Especially the horse charge bit. Also the Horse charge in last samurai, i like horse charges

One of the final scenes in Requiem for a Dream, when the lives of the protagonists are pretty much ruined, and they are lying on the beds wherever they ended up, cowering into a fetal position.

Such a depressing movie.

Plus, because i like Derren Aronofsky, the Scene in the Fountain where

Baby Tea:
In Schindler's List at the end where Oscar keeps thinking of things he could have sold or gotten rid of to save more people...he came a long way from a man who only wanted a much money as possible...to a man who couldn't get rid of it fast enough. Truly powerful.

I totally forgot about that. Yes, I would put that as number one on my list.

There is also thate nd scene in Donnie Darko where

The use of the cover of "Madworld" by Gary Jules made it stick out to me.

But the end of Schindler's list has to be my number one. How could I forget that scene?

The Baptism scene in The Godfather.

The Green Mile. Pretty much the whole movie was powerful for me--but I particularly remember the parts when the big guy was found crying with the two dead kids and when he was about to be electrocuted.

The end of Gladiator, truely moving for me

I really want to see schindlers list so bad!

(fan boy ahoy) The end bit of Advent Children when Cloud is in the pool that Aerith made to heal all of the kids, she appears and he makes no effort to go after her.

Seen that film so many times now but I still shout at the screen, at least in my head if not out loud.

TV, not Film, but the first time I ever cried because of a TV show was watching the last episode of Babylon 5, as Sheridan passed away and as Strazinski (dressed as a technician) pulled the switch on the station, and then blew it up.

Snaggly Pete:
The Green Mile. Pretty much the whole movie was powerful for me--but I particularly remember the parts when the big guy was found crying with the two dead kids and when he was about to be electrocuted.

When Tom Hank's character asks Michael Clark Duncan's character what he's supposed to tell God about why he let one of his miracles die.....it gets me everytime.

Also when Percy kills the mouse.....I hate that guy.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4

The most moving piece of cinema ever.

*spoilers*

Seriously though I thought the end of A Scanner Darkly was a little moving seeing Bob Arctor reduced to a massively brain-damaged "husk of a man" that was a stark contrast to his character at the start of the film.

Also the end of Man On Fire where Creasey rescues Pita and gives himself over to the kidnappers to be killed or worse, because she was the only thing he came to care about.

*end spoilers*

-Lilja 4ever: The very last scene(after she leaves the apartment).
-STALKER: The scene where the Stalker breaks down in tears, collapsing into a heap, and finally confesses his reasons and hopes for taking people into The Zone.
-SOLARIS(russkie version): The scene where Hari goes nuts with self doubt.

and...oh, fuck it!

-LABRYNTH: The whole movie.
-GREMLINS 2: When Gizmo comes back sporting a bandanna and a gnarly bow.
-ROBOCOP 2: When Robo finally destroys Cain's brain.
-The Thing: THE WHOLE MOVIE.

Probably the ending to Gattaca. I'm very likely the only human being who ever saw Gattaca (or it at least seems that way,) but I was very moved by it.

For some reason, I found (spoilers) the Tachikoma deaths at the end of the first Stand Alone Complex to be very moving. I don't know why. Maybe it was because I never outright hated them like some people did.

I think a great moment would have to be in End of Evangelion when...

Arlington Road
anyone whos seen it will know the last twenty minutes are absolutely amazing

Samurai Goomba:
Probably the ending to Gattaca. I'm very likely the only human being who ever saw Gattaca (or it at least seems that way,) but I was very moved by it.

For some reason, I found (spoilers) the Tachikoma deaths at the end of the first Stand Alone Complex to be very moving. I don't know why. Maybe it was because I never outright hated them like some people did.

I watched it and yeah the whole incinerator deal was kind of emotional.

All of Letters from Iwo Jima. Such an amazing film.

BaronAsh:

Samurai Goomba:
Probably the ending to Gattaca. I'm very likely the only human being who ever saw Gattaca (or it at least seems that way,) but I was very moved by it.

For some reason, I found (spoilers) the Tachikoma deaths at the end of the first Stand Alone Complex to be very moving. I don't know why. Maybe it was because I never outright hated them like some people did.

I watched it and yeah the whole incinerator deal was kind of emotional.

i still think Jude Law should've got an Oscar that year for that role
and his accent was badass

unabomberman:
-The Thing: THE WHOLE MOVIE.

The Thing, and here I thought I was the only person who'd seen it.

"Nobody trusts anyone anymore. We're all very tired."

Good choice by the way.

The death scene at the end of 12 Monkeys

that was awesome

corporate_gamer:
Lots of bits from Kingdom of Heaven. Especially the horse charge bit. Also the Horse charge in last samurai, i like horse charges

The Ride of the Rohirrim in Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. The music, the battle cries...God, I love it. "A sword day, a red day, 'ere the sun rises!"

Also, Kingdom of Heaven, when Godfrey(sp?) is about to die, and his friend asks him if he repents his sins, Godfrey looks at Balin and says, "All but one."

There's ever so many scenes that I've found particularly powerful, a few have been posted already (such as Schindler's departing in Schindler's List). These two always come to mind, I feel they are compelling yet extremely hard to watch scenes, both from brilliant movies:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WFjt0qmoNSA - Come and See

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QiA7eRQLohU - Nil By Mouth

As I've said I've seen too many amazing sequences and scenes in film to recount them all, but one that struck me recently is from Dead Man's Shoes. The final scene inside the castle, where Richard talks in a horrible way about the 'spastic' younger brother he spent the whole movie avenging the abuse of. It really sums up the unconditional love he had for the brother that embarrassed him so with his disability.

Will I sound like a nerd if I say this? (rhetorical question, that)

The part in Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King when Sauron's big black tower of doom cracks, falls, and explodes.

I think it's the mixture of Howard Shore's music and Ian McKellen shedding a tear that makes it so wonderful.

For me it would be in a movie called Shoot em up where this guy kills a guy by stabbing him with a carrot...it makes me know never to piss off guys with carrots in their hands.

Though sad wise probably Green Mile...gets me every time.

I have to point out most of Saving Private Ryan. I rarely get "moved" by movies, but that one really got to me.

EDIT: Also, A Beautiful Mind has a lot of really moving moments.

Most of you guys seem to express sadness at these scenes, but one of the most powerful scenes for me was when I was expressing anger. Hatred even, but on reflection, it was more towards the act, and not the people doing the act.

Anyways, it was in Black Hawk Down, where the two snipers were holding off the locals in order to save the downed pilot. The bit that struck me was the death of the second sniper, who was shot repeatedly, and then his carcass was displayed to the locals, as if it were an occasion of joy. The bit itself was accompanied by the tribal music, and it made my blood boil. Like I said, it wasn't at the people themselves, but it was more because how, um, barbaric that act was.

Here is a link for those who don't know what I'm talking about. Watch it from around the 4 min. mark.

There are a few that really to mind.
First, there's the last thirty minutes of With Honors, a 1994 film about some Harvard students who, basically, let a bum into their lives. Very few movies put a lump in my throat like that one did.

Next, Breaker Morant. The final scene is extremely moving, though not so much in a make-you-cry manner; it's simply a very powerful moment.

Saving Private Ryan had several; the breakdown of the German prisoner as he begs for his life- a very difficult scene for me to watch, even now- and the opening scene at the cemetery where the old man breaks down over the grave of... someone.
We Were Soldiers has three that really stand out. The officer wives going from home to home with the death telegrams; and the two scenes where "Sergeant Mackenzie" dominates the soundtrack as the Air Cav head for Ia Drang, and again as they make their final charge.
Someone already mentioned Shawshank Redemption- for me it was about thirty seconds earlier,

Blackhawk Down has a scene that is very personally moving for me, when Shugart and Gordon try to keep the mob away from Mike Durant at the second crash site.

Getting away from war movies, Interstella 5555 has two sequences that always give me goosebumps; when "Shep" gets the distress call in "Digital Love", and the montage that leads to the Crescendolls returning home during "Face to Face."

Lastly, one that speaks to me as a father- in Pet Sematary the main character sees his son about to be run over by a truck. You can see what goes through his mind as he tries to push his son out of the truck's path- he knows that that he'll die if he saves his son's life, but he's alright with that, he's made up his mind and this is what he wants to do. It's the same sort of spirit that motivated Shugart and Gordon in Mogadishu, in a way, but it's hard to understand unless you've been in that situation: I can save this person, and I'm going to try, even if it kills me.

In Bruges, two scenes were very powerful for me. The first, about half an hour into the movie, the flashback sequence when Colin Ferrell assassinates the bishop, and he finds out he's accidentally killed a little boy. The second,