The original cartoon Dumbo. I lost it during the scene when Dumbo visits his mother when she's locked up and she reaches her trunk out through the bars, wraps it around him and cradles him.

"Where the Red Fern Grows". BOTH dogs die. Brutal!

Old Yeller.....and after that,and reading Black Beauty, I have steadfastly refused to be that manipulated again.

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"Old Yeller", a Disney movie about a dog who dies in the end. I was nine at the time and it was the first time I cried at a movie and for some reason I have always remembered that.

Likely it was Schindlers List, my second favorite movie ("I HAVE A TOP 100" he announced, proudly.) Mom and sis went to see it at our towns prized jewel, the Rose theater the night it won best picture. I didn't know it was a Spielberg film so I stayed behind. They came back looking like death kissed them on the cheek. Then a year later, when it came out on VHS (remember those?) me and dad watched it. I was in 7th grade, so early teens. Don't know if you saw the film, but there's a scene where the Schindler women workers are "accidentally" shipped to the Auschwitz death camp, before which they had been talking about rumors of the notorious showers. They're taken off the train, stripped, humiliated and herded into the shower room and the camera puts you right in the center of the action. I was sitting there, warm house, snowy day outside, doggy on my lap and I fucking feel like I'M about to be gassed. That scene alone punches you in the face and kicks you in the ribs when you're down.

Either Bambi or Old Yeller, can't remember which was 1st.