History TearJerker / MusicInMedia

** Music/LordHuron's [[https://youtu.be/juKGjUGPyHs "When the Night is Over"]] for 2018.

* [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist The 2003 anime adaptation]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': "Wakare No Kyoku," or "Song of Parting" by Chopin. There is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFSG33Ao2Ug piano solo one]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLnA2zlvErM orchestral one]]. Both versions of this piece were total tear jerkers. This played as Envy and Edward crossed the gate and entered our post WWI Europe. Even Chopin said: "In all my life I have never again been able to find such a beautiful melody. Oh, my homeland."

* Daniel Yount's music for the [[Machinima/YogscastMinecraftSeries Yogscast]] Machinima/ShadowOfIsraphel series are pretty damn tearjerking. Particularly ''All Is Lost'' which is generally played at the saddest scenes such as [[spoiler: Peculier's death]].
* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' gives us "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZyGGO-2Ee4 Forever]]" and [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N0vg9--OTc Finding the Director]]]], which respectively play at two of the most heart-wrenching moments in the entire series

* "When Love is Gone" from ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'' was apparently so heart-wrenching that it was cut from the theatrical version and some versions of the DVD.

** "Lux Aeterna" from ''Film/RequiemForADream''. The music alone [[UpToEleven turns the ending up to eleven]].

* Although it's mostly SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTIwbusbN1g Ihojin no Yaiba]], the final TriumphantReprise of ''Anime/SwordOfTheStranger's'' main theme, has the additional benefit of being ''fantastically'' powerful.

* Although it's mostly SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTIwbusbN1g Ihojin no Yaiba]], the final TriumphantReprise of Anime/SwordOfTheStranger's main theme, has the additional benefit of being ''fantastically'' powerful.

** Also from Hyadain, "Bubble Man, I'm Bubble Man!", set to Bubble Man's stage theme from ''VideoGame/MegaMan2''. So what if it's about Bubble Man having [[FoeYay unrequited love for Mega Man]], the song still manages to make it completely ''heartrending''. The video makes the whole thing even more heartbreaking then the song already is, especially the final scene... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK4q30e9N9s This video]] has English subtitles.

* The soundtrack of ''Film/BrokebackMountain'', especially the beautiful instrumental tracks and "A Love That Will Never Grow Old", sung by Emmylou Harris. It was sad when the film originally came out, but it's even more heartbreaking now because film is a FunnyAneurysmMoment.

* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 2'' has "With Sympathy", played during the cutscene where Dom finds [[EmptyShell Maria]], [[spoiler:and steadily breaks down as he realizes the only thing he can do for her now is [[MercyKill end her suffering]].]] The third game then has ''another'' Dom moment made even more heart-wrenching than it already is by choice of background music: [[spoiler:When Dom sacrifices himself to save the others, a [[LonelyPianoPiece slow, mournful piano tune]] plays - an instrumental of Gary Jules' "Mad World"]].

* The Protoss background music from ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'', each track of which seems to be about two parts dirge to one part [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic march]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u_MW_xva5A "God Help The Outcasts"]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' can make one sob, especially people who themselves struggle with loneliness.

* Even a staunch atheist can be consistently reduced to tears by the end of the first stanza of "God Help the Outcasts" from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', particularly the line, "Still I see your face and wonder, were you once an outcast too?" addressed to a statue of Mary and Jesus.

* The instrumental version of "A Day in the Life" that plays in ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' when Jude goes back to Liverpool. The song can make some people cry ''anyway'', but with the raw sadness shown in that part of the movie...

* How can no one mention the theme song to ''Series/DawsonsCreek''. That's a tearjerker if ever there was one. Just take one listen to [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0qdaTTS53M the song]].

** 2020, in a break from tradition, used a specially commissioned arrangement of the Robert Frost poem, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.”

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igKeeDIYaS4 A Still Time]]" from ''[[VideoGame/{{Ys}} Ys I and II]]''.

* ''VideoGame/Haven2020'' has the beautifully heart-rending "[[https://youtu.be/tYb1A6c2WcE I Can't Stay Mad at You]]", which plays when Yu bails on Kay after an argument, and the two have to find each other again and make up. Ditto "[[https://youtu.be/F6dMc1WTz8c Until The End of Time]]", a bittersweet TriumphantReprise of the title theme.

* VisualNovel/FateStayNight's anime adaption gives us the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkgjc9HdTZ0 La Sola]] ending theme. [[BittersweetEnding "Are you dreaming now,]] [[spoiler: KingArthur ]]? [[TearJerker Are you still dreaming the same dream?"]].

* It's by Creator/RobinWilliams and it's a song.. kinda. It's only on his "Live 2002" CD. It's called "The Grim Rapper". It starts off with Robin saying that maybe we're not taken away by the Grim Reaper but the Grim Rapper, and he does a little rap about souls being taken away. Then he does a whole routine detailing various stages in a man's life as he starts to realize he's not so invincible (some parts taken from Robin's own life), mixed with the chorus of "Those Were The Days" by Mary Hopkin. This description doesn't do it justice, it's very profound and haunting.

* "[[http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=0Acq8yG2Fy8 Where Is Your Heart?]]", a.k.a. "The Song from ''Moulin Rouge''". It makes a ThemeTuneCameo in the film itself as [[http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=oLyKbOtASHA Jane Avril's song]]. It can make one tear up every time, especially when considering the huge DownerEnding of the film.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHRpwZeJ7xk The sequel to Cirno's Perfect Math Class]] from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' can really do it.

** The ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fan game ''Concealed the Conclusion'' takes the series through a rather [[DreamApocalypse dark and tragic turn]], and the music reflects it. That final stage music, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mziE9ScZy9A Blue Sea of 53 Minutes]]" proves, as one reviewer put it, that "it's hard to dodge {{danmaku}} while crying." For the last boss, you get to experience the main character and her dying best friend having one final duel before the end of the world, set to the simultaneously epic and heartbreaking "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJqdUILsT8Q G Free ~ Final Dream]]". And after ''that'', you get "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgQRTxhOwUM The Purest Sky and Sea]]" for credits music.

* The use of Music/TheChicks' version of "Landslide" by Music/FleetwoodMac in a 2006 episode of Series/GuidingLight can also come off as this as well, due to the fact that the character is recalling her life in a gut-wrenching manner.

* The use of Music/TheChicks' version of the "Landslide" by Music/FleetwoodMac in a 2006 episode of Series/GuidingLight can also come off as this as well, due to the fact that the character is recalling her life in a gut-wrenching manner.

* The use of the Chicks' version of the "Landslide" by Music/FleetwoodMac in a 2006 episode of Series/GuidingLight can also come off as this as well, due to the fact that the character is recalling her life in a gut-wrenching manner.

* From Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia, China's character song "Aiyaah, 4000 years", which is about China and Japan's relationship and how Japan had betrayed China. The music and lyrics make it even worse.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5PQYsbHlYU "107 Steps"]] from the movie ''Film/DancerInTheDark''.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62pLY5zFTtc "I've seen it all"]] is heartbreaking too.

** On an odder note, "Gollum's Song". The Singer's voice takes some getting used to, But then FridgeBrilliance kicks in and you realise that It's absolutely perfect for this desolate, hopeless creature.

* What about "Mad World" at the end of ''Donnie Darko''?

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgfxKm0m1Vs This one]] is even worse.

** Speaking of Creator/JimHenson, the rendition of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLnyK7DG0CA Just One Person]]" from the tribute special that aired after his death in 1990 is another one.
*** If you think that's something, try the one they performed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwPQyxz5Rfw at his funeral]].

* "Gabriel's Oboe" from ''The Mission''. It's an extremely powerful song... especially when you realize that Ennio Morricone took the random on-screen oboe-pantomiming of Jeremy Irons and turned it into such a beautiful piece.
** Someone apparently sung the piece into something called "Nella Fantasia". It basically ''doubles'' the tear-jerking and heartwarming factor.
*** It gets worse for [[CostaRica Costa Rican audiences]] where the beginning of the song is used to accompany ''obituaries'' on TV

* "We Have All The Time In the World", also by Music/LouisArmstrong, ''especially'' in the context that it was the backing to Film/JamesBond's and Tracy's happy moments together in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''... [[Tearjerker/{{Film}} until...]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d4C1ZQKmw4 "The Lonely Man"]] from ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk''.