History TearJerker / Advertising

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC7zfgCXQFs This St John's Ambulance PIF]]. It shows a man being diagnosed with cancer, surviving his treatment and fully recovering [[spoiler: only to die from choking on food because none of his friends or family knew how to do first aid.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC7zfgCXQFs This St John's Ambulance PIF]] will, at the very least, leave you shocked. It shows a man being diagnosed with cancer, surviving his treatment and fully recovering [[spoiler: only to die from choking on food because none of his friends or family knew how to do first aid.]]

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2prAccclXs "Brotherhood"]] by Budweiser. A man and a horse share a great kinship.
** That Budweiser commercial is a TearJerker and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming all at once! [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3eQmzw6n3k This]] one, however, also deserves a mention here. It was aired after September 11th and only once just to acknowledge the tragic event. It ''will'' make you cry.

* [[https://youtu.be/V6-0kYhqoRo A German Christmas Commercial]] from the Supermarket "Edeka". Grandpa bringing everyone together for Christmas through the means of a real tear jerker. Subtitles available in many Languages.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXz_1mTZCUI Segata Sanshiro's final commercial]] for the SegaSaturn will have you weeping ManlyTears before the end of it.

Even a clip as small as 30 seconds can make you shed a tear. Here are some examples.

* The Meth Project ads where the rehabilitated users are shown everything they gave up for meth. Having a child makes the one of the young father touching the face of the mannequin very painful.

** That Budweiser commercial is a TearJerker and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming all at once! [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3eQmzw6n3k This]] one, however, also deserves a mention here. It was aired after 9/11 and only once just to acknowledge the tragic event. It ''will'' make you cry.

* A commercial where rain was falling in sheets on grimy city streets while anonymous feet stomped and hurried to and fro. From a crack in a sidewalk, a single flower was growing, the only bit of color in the whole city, but battered by the rain and always in danger of being crushed. The flower was a child with cancer...
* An advertisement for chicken pox vaccinations or something of the like. The ad began by revealing that many children die each year from complications brought on by chicken pox... and it features several toys, a jack-in-the-box, a teddy bear, a ragdoll, a rubber ducky... all quietly weeping over their lost "children."

* [[http://www.thedrum.co.uk/pub/files/photos/news/10467/master.Cotdeath2.JPG These]] cot death awareness posters have been turning up around Scotland recently. Walks a ''thin'' line between {{Narm}} and tragedy.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaP5AY673ws Another Thai ad]], this time for ''ceiling panels''. Two house geckos in love are tragically separated by the male falling out of a crack in a ceiling panel.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaP5AY673ws Another Thai ad]], this time for ''ceiling panels''. Two geckos in love are tragically separated by the male falling out of a crack in a ceiling panel.

* This one anti-drinking commercial with the little girl who says that in seven years, she'll be an alcoholic.

* An ad on MTV, where a donkey travels across the screen in a gritty urban-landscape and after it a text appears. "It takes 20 seconds for the donkey to reach the other side of the screen. By then, two children die because of starvation. Help now." It really hit the point home with the facts in a really, ''really'' sad way.

** Hits even harder if said buddy has died

** A similar campaign ran in the States, done by the Ad Council. They too showed home movies of adults and children, before a caption would state that they were killed by drunk drivers.

* During Super bowl XLIX, Nationwide aired an ad about how a kid is never going to get cooties, sail the world with his friend, or grow up... because he died in a horrible accident. Here's the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKUy-tfrIHY

* You see a happy, inquisitive girl grow up interested in the world around her and in science - touching flowers, going through streams, collecting sea-life at the beach, making an amazing paper mache orrery for her own room, working on a rocket with her brother, only to be told "Don't get your dress dirty," "Leave that alone," "Your project is out of hand," "Let your brother do that. That's dangerous." As a teen, she sees a flyer for her school science fair... [[spoiler: and turns to look at her reflection on the display case to reapply her lip gloss before walking away. The text comes up onto the screen: "66% of fourth grade girls say they like science and math. But only 18% of all college engineering majors are female."]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP3cyRRAfX0]]

** Baby Oleg was a new character who quickly became popular, and we are shown many funny adverts of the meerkats taking him in and raising him (Which is especially heartwarming in Aleksandr's case, due to his [[JerkAss usual portrayal in the series]]) and they eventually take him to Africa to show him his roots... then at Christmas 2014, [[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DSHlwqcc1tI this happens.]] We actually hear Serge crying afterwards. Possibly one of the few [[WhamEpisode genuinely shocking and sad]] things to happen in a series of advertising. The reactions on social networking sites go to show just how attached people have become to these meerkats.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC7zfgCXQFs This St John's Ambulance PIF]] will, at the very least, leave you shocked. It shows a man being diagnosed with cancer, surviving his treatment and fully recovering [[spoiler: only to die from choking on food because none of his friends or family knew how to do first aid. He went through all that treatment for a terminal disease, just to die from something that could easily have been prevented.]]

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x_Fl3NQVd4 Here's a PSA]] from True Move, Thailand's third-largest mobile operator and a testament to the power of a simple good deed. If your eyes aren't leaking by the end, you have a heart of stone.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOM5ysMhAnI This cinema ad for the NSPCC]]. It's very simple, combining merely just "Tell Me There's a Heaven" by Chris Rea with a series of pictures and text. And yet, it is quite possibly one of the saddest--yet greatest--ads against child abuse you will ever see.