Independence Day (1996)
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director: Roland Emmerich
Screenplay: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich
Stars: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, Harvey Fierstein
Filming dates: 28 July – 2 November 1995
Premiere: 25 June 1996
Filming locations:
- New South Wales
- Sydney (establishing shots)
- Giza Plateau
- The Great Pyramids, Giza (establishing shots)
- Stockholms län
- Stockholm
- Mount Kilimanjaro (establishing shots)
- Arizona
- Quartzsite (RV camping grounds)
- Mojave Desert
- California
- Los Angeles
- Downtown, Los Angeles, California (establishing shots)
- Biltmore Hotel – 506 S. Grand Avenue, Downtown (First Lady Marilyn Whitmore’s hotel)
- U.S. Bank Tower – 633 W. Fifth Street, Downtown (library tower)
- Santa Fe Avenue, Downtown (Los Angeles destruction street scenes)
- 4th Street, Downtown (New York destruction street scenes)
- 2nd Street Tunnel between Hill and Figueroa (Los Angeles street scenes)
- 4th Street Viaduct (Los Angeles street scenes)
- 6033 W 74th Street (Jasmine Dubrow’s house)
- Downtown, Los Angeles, California (establishing shots)
- Fontana (Los Angeles ruins)
- Kaiser Steel Mill, Fontana
- Santa Clarita
- Windsor
- Los Angeles
- Colorado
- Colorado Springs
- Little Colorado River
- District of Columbia
- Washington (establishing shots)
- K Street Northwest & N Capitol Street Northwest, Washington (Washington DC street shot)
- Washington (establishing shots)
- Georgia
- Blue Ridge
- Indiana
- Michigan City
- Nevada
- Rachel (trailer park scene)
- New Jersey
- 36 64th Street, West New York (Julius Levinson’s house)
- Donnelly Memorial Park, West New York (David plays chess with his father)
- New Mexico
- White Sands
- Very Large Array, Socorro
- New York
- New York City (establishing shots)
- Manhattan, New York City
- Church Street & Leonard Street, Tribeca, Manhattan (New York street scenes)
- Greene Street & Grand Street, Soho, Manhattan (New York street scenes)
- South Street & Pike Slip, Lower East Side, Manhattan (New York street scenes)
- Wall Street & William Street, Financial District, Manhattan (New York street scenes)
- Manhattan, New York City
- New York City (establishing shots)
- Oregon
- Grants Pass
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
- Pittsburgh
- Texas
- Dallas
- Utah
- Bonneville Salt Flats (alien crash, RV caravan)
- Lakepoint (trailor park)
- Skull Valley
- Tooele
- Wendover Airport – 345 S. Airport Apron, Wendover (Area 51)
- Washington
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