Most haunting death scene I ever saw in a movie was when the slave traders in Amistad had to lighten the load so they threw the slaves over the side, chained together. As they were being pulled over one by one the look of sheer terror on their faces of what was happening still bothers me to think about.
Another one was when the chick in the movie The Abyss decides the only way two of them can get from their compromised underwater station to a safe station is she drowns and he swims her body over to the other one and revives her when they get there.
Don't know the name of the war movie but another epic scene was when the pipeline had to be run across the top of the ground under enemy fire, one section at a time. One by one the soldier would take a section out and go as far as he could until he was gunned down, then the next soldier would take it as far as he could, until he too was gunned down. They built a pipeline on the lives of soldiers willing to commit suicide to get it done.
That wasn’t a pipeline that was a bangalore torpedo. It was in the Big Red One.
