Independence Day (1996) poster
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Independence Day

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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. From TMDB

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  • Jesse Cox @jessecox.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Fireworks are nice -but my favorite 4th of July memory was seeing the movie Independence Day opening night late on the 3rd. The theater timed it so the 4th title card appears on the screen as it hit midnight. For a moment everyone in that theater was out of control. Simple times.

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  • jamelle @jamellebouie.netBluesky · Jul 8, 2024

    watching INDEPENDENCE DAY for the pod and damn this movie still whips!

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  • All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.comBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    AFRICAN GAZE was an exhibition showcasing the weird and wonderful art form that is the Ghanaian movie poster. On Ghana’s Independence Day, here are some of the best... 1/25 - Mrs Doubtfire

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  • Ed Zitron @edzitron.comBluesky · Jul 4, 2026

    Never forget that Independence Day is a 4th of July movie

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  • Zinnia Jones 🐍🗡️ @zinniajones.comBluesky · Mar 13, 2025

    Honestly, the way things are going nowadays, Independence Day (1996) would probably be considered a "smart" action movie now

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  • JazzSusuwatari @jazzsusuwatari.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2025

    Can a high profile Democrat please go on Fox News to show footage from the movie Independence Day and claim that the White House is under immediate attack from aliens?

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  • Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 9, 2025

    Movie idea - a reboot of Independence Day in which the President of the United States (Donald Trump) sides with the alien invaders.

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  • The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.comBluesky · Feb 11, 2025

    [Thread] 🤟So: Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! When I was 16, this film didn't excite me and I just wanted Independence Day. At 44, I'm so glad this movie exists!

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  • I Ate Oklahoma @iateoklahoma.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2025

    This President's Day, I'm going to rewatch "Independence Day." Not the whole movie. Just one clip. Over and over again. Cheering for the aliens.

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  • Spooky Sasquatch @nerdysasquatch.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    I don't care what anyone says, Independence Day is a fun movie that I try to watch every year. It helps that Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum are both incredibly charming as the leads, and Bill Pullman is very likable.

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  • Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2025

    Replicas of miniatures used in disaster movies, culminating in a room filled with the all of the miniatures from Independence Day, which holds the record for most miniatures ever used in a film.

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  • jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2024

    Happy 4th of July, the holiday created to celebrate the movie Independence Day (1996) starring Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum and nothing else, to you all

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  • Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2026

    I have some excellent news for you about the plot of the 1996 film Independence Day

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  • 🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2024

    One thing about the film Independence Day is it is a triumph of miniatures

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  • Anil Dash @anildash.comBluesky · Dec 19, 2025

    A *lot* of Americans did not understand why Independence Day was such a popular film in a lot of the world.

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  • Star Trek Corrected Captions @startrekcc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2026

    It's time for another Enterprise movie night with Phlox. Now showing: Independence Day (1996) #StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #StarTrekEnterprise

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  • mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2025

    I watched the movie Independence Day for the first time today and did you know they blow up the White House in that film?

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  • Marshall Scott @marshallscott.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2023

    Still can’t believe we have a federal holiday to celebrate the 1996 hit movie Independence Day

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  • Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2024

    I guess he kind of looks like the kind of guy who would be president in --an Aaron Sorkin production --a movie where POTUS says, like, "I don't care what the Constitution says. I know what's right!" before making dogs legal --the 1996 film Independence Day

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  • Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.comBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    Please for the love of Allah if you're going to use this list as watch list replace Independence Day Resurgence with an old-fashioned-style action movie like The Man From UNCLE or something, and replace Doom (2015) with literally any monster movie I don't watch those I'm too scared

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  • Marshall Scott @marshallscott.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2025

    Still can’t believe we have a federal holiday to celebrate the 1996 hit movie Independence Day

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  • Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2026

    I was asked for Independence Day film recs beyond Jaws, Zodiac, Nashville, & Blow Out. I feel like right now, Do the Right Thing still has the most urgent & vital things to say about America, but my go-to is The Right Stuff, featuring Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager in the goddamn hero shot of all time.

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  • DarkMatter2525 @darkmatter2525.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2025

    If you want to experience something really jarring, watch an older movie that depicts a US president, like Air Force One, Deep Impact, The American President, or shit even Independence Day.

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  • Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.comBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Just got back from a “Independence Day the movie the party” in which the Bill Pullman president speech was given by a different person every hour

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  • jamelle @jamellebouie.netBluesky · Jul 9, 2024

    Hey Nathan, I know you did not intend to do this, but this is a pretty serious misreading of my post, which isn't an expression of nostalgia but an analysis of the ideological mode in which the film is operating, as per the subject of the podcast I host about movies like INDEPENDENCE DAY.

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  • Siskel and Ebert Bot @siskel-ebert-bot.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2026

    Independence Day (1996) Director: Roland Emmerich Cast: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell Watch Review wp / wd

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  • Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2024

    Independence Day is a Christmas movie

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  • Dillin Apelyan - Bob the Builder's #1 Guy @superdillin.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Watched Independence Day for the first time since I was a kid, and gotta give three cheers for a film with a sex worker in it who not only isn't fridged, isn't ashamed of her job, but also has a happy romantic ending with one of the heroes of the story? also snaps for Jeff Goldblum's face card

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  • ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2026

    I believe the excellent 1996 documentary film Independence Day confirmed that there is indeed an enormous conspiracy to hide the existence of aliens from the president of the United States

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  • Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 18, 2026

    Those "POLICE ICE" uniform patches are like when a studio knows you won't care about their movie so they have to slap "FROM THE CREATORS OF INDEPENDENCE DAY" directly above the title

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  • Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2025

    a Mary McDonnell film fest=never a bad idea. In the last few months I've watched or rewatched Passion Fish, Sneakers, Independence Day (a fun film with the big mistake of underusing MM criminally), Dances With Wolves. I'm a horror wuss but she's also great in House of Usher. Turns out she can act!!

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  • C. Bukowski @thishurt.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2025

    Nobody who saw the original Independence Day movie can see steam cloud up a window and NOT be ready for that jump scare to follow, and damn it, THAT is an enduring film legacy if there ever is one.

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  • David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2026

    Independence Day: Resurgence killed the dog from the first movie by happening twenty years later.

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  • Lennie Brisco County Jr @mburchett.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2024

    That's why it's so weird Independence Day had Will Smith AND Harry Connick Jr. In the movie and no promotional single that didn't even need to be in the actual movie.

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  • Goldy @goldy.horsesass.orgBluesky · Jul 8, 2025

    Watching the aliens blow up the White House in Independence Day resonates very differently in 2025 than it did when the film came out in 1996.

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  • Lamont Price @lpizzle.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2025

    The movie "Independence Day" didn't even attempt to explore the idea that maybe the aliens were flying by Earth and smelled BBQ

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  • Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 13, 2025

    Watched Independence Day (1996). It's amazing how well-structured this is. The conflict and stakes come together so quickly and so well that it feels like you're watching a historical event. Then someone talks and you go "oh, right, the 90's." Always a delight to spot a Harvey Fierstein role.

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  • Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2026

    in an unprecedented, world shaking development, I am on a PODCAST. talking to @duncanweldon.bsky.social and @roberthutton.co.uk about Independence Day

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  • Larry Karaszewski @larrythek.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2025

    “Nashville” is my Independence Day film

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  • acabylon 👻👻 BOO 👻👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    Independence Day is not an independence day movie. It just happens to occur on July 4.

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  • Parents: It's SPIRIT👻 Month! @ethanlavery.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2026

    [SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never seen the movie Independence Day? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you watching a movie with Bill Pullman! [SMITH]: That's Bill Paxton

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  • Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2025

    Independence Day: Resurgence is so unspeakably bad that it directly led to me halting my plans to pursue film as a career after getting my degree in it.

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  • John Bull @garius.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2026

    "Is it me, or is that Patrick Moore fistfighting an extraterrestrial?" Delighted to be a guest on the Fulcrum Film Club podcast, talking about Dirk Maggs' forgotten audio masterpiece: Independence Day UK. The official War-of-the-Worlds-esque BBC tie-in radio play to the 1996 movie.

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  • Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2025

    every dunk on Independence Day is correct but also that movie rules

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  • Ember! @emberbat.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2025

    Just randomly thinking of the hit blockbuster movie, Independence Day(1996)! For no reason really. Just a really well crafted film! :3

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  • James Damron @runswindows95.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 17, 2025

    Smash two movies together to make a new movie Independence Day of The Dead

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  • The OcCULTure Crypt Keeper @occulturecritic.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2026

    Theaters should be showing Independence Day today but they're cowards.

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  • pooneil1.bsky.social @pooneil1.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 25, 2025

    He thought it was Jeff Goldblum. He's a big fan of the film Independence Day.

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  • WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.comBluesky · Jul 4, 2026

    GOING 2 WATCH THE 1996 FILM "INDEPENDENCE DAY" 2 GET A SENSE OF WAT JULY 4TH IS ALL ABOUT

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  • APB-art @apb-art.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2026

    WHEN ALIENS ATTACK at the Revue Cinema in Toronto is screening Independence Day. Here’s my poster

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  • Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2026

    Today on The Reveal, I revisited INDEPENDENCE DAY for the first time in 30 years. Eleanor Clift was wrong about this president. thereveal.film/independence...

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  • Cory Robert @the3rdcory.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2026

    #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) Harold and Maude (1971) Independence Day (1996) My Scientology Movie (2015)

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  • scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.ripBluesky · Jul 5, 2024

    Time to watch the America movie today. No, not Independence Day. I'm talking about National Treasure

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  • SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2025

    You know, Independence Day is basically an XCOM movie

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  • 「 ✦ Jd🎃g ✦ 」 @jdogtoocool.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    QTP with a movie you’d rate a perfect 10/10 🎥 Independence Day (1996)

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  • Richard Porter @sniffpetrol.comBluesky · Aug 2, 2025

    Saw Independence Day in a cinema in North Carolina. As film climaxed and aliens were vanquished, audience leapt from seats and whooped. Mate saw same film in Stockport. As film climaxed and aliens were vanquished, very Manc bloke in front stood up, said "This is shite, I'm off" and left.

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  • Anton Hur @antonhur.comBluesky · May 27, 2026

    Remember that 90s movie Independence Day where THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT saves the world

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  • Fulcrum Film Club @fulcrumfc.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2026

    OUT TOMORROW: Jonny discovers BBC Radio 1’s official audio movie tie-in to Independence Day. Yes, Independence Day UK! Get ready to go back to August 1996 with historian @garius.bsky.social

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  • Tyler Mead @tylermead.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    INDEPENDENCE DAY really understood exactly how much exposition is necessary for a film

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  • Ren @ren136.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2026

    Happy Independence Day! The day we should celebrate the movie Independence Day because america absolutely sucks right now.

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