Your birth year
2006
Independence Day
1996
Independence Day is 10 years older than you
It's from 1996, before you were born.
- Director
- Roland Emmerich
- Genre
- Sci-fi action
- Star
- Will Smith
- Released
- 1996
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About
As of 2026, it's 30 years old.
Independence Day is the disaster blockbuster at its most gleefully enormous, blowing up the White House and most major landmarks with giant alien saucers before a fighter pilot and a cable guy save the world with a computer virus and a rousing speech. Plausible? No. Spectacular? Completely.
Will Smith punching an alien and Bill Pullman's stirring 'we will not go quietly into the night' speech defined the big, dumb, wonderful '90s blockbuster.
Loud, ridiculous, and irresistibly fun, Independence Day is the film that blew up the planet's monuments and made you cheer about it.
