Watership Down • Bright Eyes • Art Garfunkel 

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I'm 50 and saw this movie as a kid and was traumatised by it. Everytime I hear this song or see this video I cry like I did when I was a kid.

Anyone who dismisses this song as corny is truly dead inside, it always puts a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye. Beautiful song.

Art Garfunkel's voice is so perfect for this song.

I can’t help it, every time I hear Bright Eyes I‘m bawling my eyes out.

Watership Down still holds up as an all-time great animated film.

Nope, still can't even think of this without bawling my eyes out.

I remember watching this when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I cried for about a day. I'm now 47 and this song still makes me cry.

This movie is a MASTERPIECE!

I was mystified and entranced by this movie as a child. What a strange, incredible masterpiece.

At the end when hazel dies and goes with the black rabbit so peacefully makes me think how my gran went. Someone calling on her. “Cmon with us margaret your daughter and grandson will be just fine your days here are done come with us and be at peace” xxxx

The scene where the rabbits are running away from the development sign is very telling even today.

In a subtle way Watership Down kinda prepares children for Adulthood. *Remember watching this as a kid and being completely mesmerized*

I watch this video a few times a year and every time tears run down my face within a half minute. No other song has this kind of affect on me, amazing. Great movie and book too.🙂

Watched this as a kid and made me cry

I was 4 years old when my mum taken me to the cinema to see this & the very first 7inch single she bought me I now have 2 daughters of my own & cannot watch this without tears and I'm nearly 50 years old In my opinion it's the finest piece of animation ever brought out.

I remember watching it at the cinema when it came out. Seemed like the whole cinema was crying. Beautiful film and music. Imagine it was a lot of kids first experience of lifes' hardships.

This szene with the song for sure always makes me cry my eyes out. I watched this movie soo many times growing up, I'm an 'adult' now but watching Watership Down always makes me so emotional, more than everything else..

One of the most influential films in my life. Taught me a great lesson about life and death. The music is haunting.

This film was made in 1978, I was born in 1986 and I love it. Life passes so fast. Enjoy it.

Jeez, for a cartoon this was bloody brutal. I’m still crying for Hazel

Nothing fucks you up more than looking into dead glassy eyes. Especially someone you care for. I cpr my own mother and watched her light fade. Ill never ever get over it. But such is life and you hang in there.

Lost my best friend yesterday, this hits hard, RIP Dexter

"...all the world will be your enemy. Prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you they will kill you! But first they must catch you! Runner. Digger. Listener. Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, full of tricks...and your people will never be destroyed."

The Greatest Children animated film ever made. So incredibly moving

Beautiful song for a great movie. This song is about death and the acceptance of it.

This song brings a lump to my throat 😮😊😊😂awesome great/thank you.

My mum told me how brutal the film was as she had watched it when she was a child when it came out. I was adamant she was exaggerating and it couldn't be that bad. We ended up getting the VHS from the video shop and at the end, she said 'I told you so!' as I sat there bawling my eyes out. It's been over twenty years and she still reminds me whenever we hear this song.

Can't listen to this Beautiful Song without crying a bit. ❤

it left its mark on me. As a kid I knew who the bullies were and help me deal with a family member’s passing. I think every kid should watch this film. It’s a great preparation for what’s ahead in life. I showed this film to my boys when they were 6and 8 and when I played this tune they looked At what I was watching now at 23and 25 they remember it and we put it on the big screen to watch it. It’s also a lesson of life. I’m so proud of my boys today.

Today my beloved rabbit Honey died. She was 12 years old. I listen to this song on repeat. My heart is broken. 😔

I was listening to this song while holding my 14 year old blind Yorkshire Terrier, I was really messed up by the end of the song, I will never be able to see into his soul through his eyes ever again , bless him , anyone that owns an animal will know what I mean. ps Lovely song.

This strikes so deeply in so many ways…. Love life death faith doubt migration home defeat and victory. Everything!

My eldest daughter once gave herself the name Bright Eyes for a Native American class project. I can’t hear this song play without thinking of her. My eyes fill with tears.

Such an innocent pc of music...shared by the most innocent and softest person ive ever known

This Masterpiece touches all angles of life and death in a mesmerising way

Blood and guts bunny movie, extremely well done! Art Garfunkels song Bright Eyes is perfect for the death of Hazel. I read the book when I was young teenager. No adaptation is perfect, but this movie evokes all the feelings I had reading the book.

If this doesn't make you cry then nothing can.

Love this song came out when I was born I'm now 44 my mum n dad called me bright eyes xx

A sad song but testament to nature and wildlife. So much so that I want this to be my funeral song when I take the stairway to heaven. ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL I LOVE THEM ALL

This is the most beautiful movie and song in the world. Sadly whenever we lose a pet this song gets put on a free times. It's just beautiful. RIP Stella Blue

This was one of the first songs I remember from when I was very little, 40 odd years later it still brings a tear to my eye.

One of the best movies of all time. Truly a masterpiece. I watched it with my girlfriend yesterday as I finally remembered it and told her how good it is. I remembered that it was tragic but I seriously couldn't remember that it was that bloody but still it is one of my favourite movies if not my favourite movie from my childhood. It didn't left me disturbed or traumatized. It teached a lot about life (and death). The soundtrack gives me the chills from nostalgia.

One of the first videos we rented out on VHS. What a beautiful song, to a tremendous animated film. One of my favorite movies of all time. 'The Plague Dogs' was just as moving and sad.

This terrified me as a kid. But what a masterpiece . And soundtrack. I remember watching it as a young kid and crying at the sad bits and mum was right there to comfort me. Just hearing that song takes me right back to that moment . Miss you mum.❤️

Such a good film with so much sadness and darkness

The most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. ❤.

Still shocked that my mum let me watch this so many times as a young kid. What a film and soundtrack though.

I was desperately in love in 1979. I wanted to end it all, but this beautiful song kept me going.

This song never fails to bring tears to my eyes particularly for how it appears to be framed as an ode to the Black Rabbit of Inlay and how all of the rabbits walk with him in the story, and more specifically on Fiver's supernatural relationship with him in full acceptance of and in all spiritual oneness with the finality and fatalism of being equal to him in spirit in full accordance with the Lord Frith's will as a visionary who has walked with him in spirit since babyhood and will forever walk with him in spirit throughout all the remaining days of his life where Hazel gets to ally with him in Inlay and walk with him as a full spirit in death forever and ever. For even as this song asks how the light of the windows to a rabbit's soul could ever go pale and fade it could very well be the spirit of the Black Rabbit and thus death itself asking that exact same question of us while lingering on the beautiful brightness of the bodily life it lived that is gone even while the very soul is now and always and forever in its keeping while still retaining its beauty as a bright spark to have the honour of walking with him in a new cycle on the next plain of wild and free existence within the purely spiritual dimension of the lore that permeates the stunning entirety that is "Watership Down".

I will never not hate how this movie is mostly known for it's violence,rather than it's story,characters,and soundtrack.It's soo much more than a gorefest with rabbits

Probably one of the most controversial movies of its time, for those who knew about it. Your first encounter with PTSD before you were even 5 years old.

This is my childhood

Remember when this used to come on as a series back in the day, you'd get home from school and watch the next episode of Watership Down. Man, my parents would have been shocked at what I was watching but damn, it was one of the most beautiful and devastating films I've ever watched! I'll never forget it! ❤️

That watership down book was massive, not many read it from cover to cover, they watched this instead!

This song, is like a memory of a dream.

Black Mirror - Demon 79 brought me here, amazing!

Simply wonderful song and film..

There's only three songs I will cry on command. We didn't Start the Fire, If We Hold on Together by Diana Ross.....and this song. Just

Incredible lyrics and music. Brings me to tears every time I listen to it.. This is perfection personified ❤️

This and the last unicorn. Dark but beautiful

My dad sang this song to me when in was little all the time. I'm 44 now and I still remember that bond between us

my beautiful little kitten Rani died here in India because of landgrab corruption. I lit her a candle that night she passed and saw her spirit leave her body. It reminded me of this song. So I watched it and saw it was also about the destruction of nature. THANK YOU for this beautiful song as a gift to my healing process me and my best friend we watched it together and he allowed himself to cry it was beautiful.

This song had me in cries and I'm 53 Yr old

I'm so glad they made this a movie

I read the book as a ten year old. This was the inspiration for me to pick up one of the greatest stories I've ever read.

I've seen Watership Down as a film and read the book 📖. A journey to find a safer place to live.❤

Kanns mir nicht erklären aber mir kommen jedes mal die Tränen,,so eine tolle Geschichte.. einfach ein Muss

I gained a testimony of God from this movie. Very uplifting whenever I see it

RIP Max I love you so much.

I remember watching this with my grandma may he RIP GOD bless you all through the years all ways truly 🙏💕

From the time I was 10, one of my favorite books, favorite films, and favorite songs. Thanks!

That harmony at 2:30. Wow. There are no words.

When i was a kid, this really scares me but this song really makes me cry! 😭 I felt like i lost my brother for this.

Heavenly Music & Song

First time I was at the cinema for my communion and how did I try not cry. Still love to this day 41 years later

Amazing video I love the countryside and nature/wildlife so much. It's paradise and always brings tears to my eyes.

I saw this film 40 years ago and it still is one of my fave films of all time. Dark as hell yet so unique and heaet warming its a masterpiece like the song! General Woundwort gets overlooked too often in great villain countdowns and compilations!

reminds me of my great grandmother, we’d watch this together when i was very young. I’m 25 now and this still makes me cry, rest in peace ❤️

How remember this beautiful number..it great to look back and smile

I heard this song for the first time during a Black Mirror episode and wanted to see what people thought of it. I had no idea it was so much more than being some other ending song. It's beautiful. Thanks guys.

One of my favorites growing up. Was born in 89. Myself and many friends seemed to have much pain when we were young adults, which mostly lead to drug use which typically leads to prison or death. Movies like this among others seemed to affect people born in the 80s and eSrly 90s without even realizing it. These movies seemed to harden us thru our childhood, but once young adults, most of us could no longer stay numb

I saw this as a kid and I cried when fivo was killed and hearing the song by Art Garfunkel brought it all back to me

One of the best movies ever created on this earth!

Never saw the entire movie, only this clip. Still brings tears to my eyes.

I remember this from when I was a kid. Very poignant song, I remember singing it with my friends at our mutual friend’s funeral.

Wednesday 6th March 2024. Watership Down for some reason reminds me of The Land Before Time. I don't know why. Anyway best of luck to all of you. From Virginia Clark.?! ;) :( :) 😢🐇🐳🦕🦖

So much emotion in just the song itself, and when you know the movie it just goes so much deeper. I don't think there will ever be a time i listen to this song and don't cry a bit, and for that i am thankful.

Very touching

In eine Zeit der kindlichen Unschuld zurückgesetzt .magic Moment danke

He was once my smile, my glimmer

I read the book and am thrilled to hear this song again. It sounds wonderful and brought back great memories of being young. Thank you.

When we are young, we see nature as being beautiful and kind and peaceful. When we grow up to be adults, we see what nature truly is. It is a brutal war for survival that we humans never witness. Because we are so consumed with ourselves. But out there in the forests. Animals fight wars for survival. Just what makes us different from them, I wonder. Is it our technology. Our desire for power. Or just because we can't be happy living in peace when we have all that we need. This movie should be something everybody has to watch before they reach the age of twelve. Every human must understand that we are given the gift of being able to make the choice to make peace. Animals don't have that choice. All they have is the choice of running away or fighting. Either the only chance for survival that they have. Unless a human takes on the job to be a kind god. And takes in an infant wild animal. And does all that they can do To rehabilitate them to return them to the wild where they belong. May happen with a memory Of an ancient and grand god. who healed them. In watership down, humans are considered to be the children of frith himself the sun god. walking giants with power that not even the smartest of animals can not comprehend. And yet like gods they are both callous cruel and Caring and cunning. After all according to the rabbit people. Only humans mastered the way of the hurudado If or as we know it the motor vehicle that uses a combustion engine And drives upon pavement. But they consider that to equally be a tool of the supernatural efficiency. Their innocence Towards what humans are capable of is what makes them so adorable. In the story I feel that we endure ourselves to the rabbits because We are looking at the world that we know so well through their eyes in a shockingly differently Lens. And seeing that juxtaposition It makes me smile. And makes me think. If we are the children of frith. Is it not our duty as the children of the god of the sun. Is to protect all that his light dares to shine across. To ensure that they will always be safe and happy. I think that's a noble life to live

2:20 gets me every time, the harmonies...

Certvinly springs tears

Not even a million quid would make me watch this heartbreaking movie

This and J.T. Two movies that left a huge mark on my childhood, and taught me about caring for animals.

This will always be a no:1 hit Hart braker ! Masterpiece 100%

Still crying

Such a beautiful song, it makes me teary eyed everytine