Movie Settings Database

Independence Day

Where:

🇮🇶 Iraq California Nevada New York District of Columbia Texas

When:

The 1990s

Don't make plans for August. — On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.

Released in 1996 — 145 minutes

Genres:

Action Adventure Science Fiction

Language:

English