Love this movie? Good news: there's a sequel. (Source)

During filming, unknowing residents of Orange County, CA, saw the filming of the "Welcome Wagon" sequence from afar and reported the lights as a UFO. Guess paranoid alien conspiracy theorists aren't just for fiction, right? (Source)

The film only took 72 days to shoot. For a big-budget film, that's crazy short. (Source)

The set from the White House scenes was also used for Mars Attacks! (1996) (Source)

The movie almost had to be called ID4 because someone else owned the name Independence Day. We're not sure how you can claim ownership over the name of a holiday… (Source)