Independence Day
1996 · 145 min
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
Director: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin
Cinematographer: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Editor: David Brenner
Composer: David Arnold
Cast: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch