1996
Independence Day
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. Bio je to sasvim običan, letni dan... sve dok, bez upozorenja, ogromna senka nije zamračila Zemlju. Neobičan atmosferski fenomen, zloslutni i hipnotički, proširio se nad čitavom našom planetom. Pitanje jesmo li sami u svemiru konačno je dobilo odgovor. I u samo nekoliko minuta, životi svih bića zauvek su promenjeni.
