Independence Day Filming Locations

The First Lady talks to the President over the phone from her hotel room in Los Angeles. After the aliens arrive she flees the hotel via a helicopter on the roof.

David and Julius play chess in the park before David has to head to work.

David arrives at work and notices a strange code embedded in their satellite signals.

Russell is drinking at a local diner when the locals start talking about his alien abduction story. Constructed for filming next to one of the hangers.

Captain Steven Hiller wakes up to find the neighborhood panicking and when he heads outside he sees the spaceship hanging over Los Angeles.

A group of kids playing basketball under the bridge when they see the spaceship emerging from the clouds.

People panic when the spaceship arrives over Wall Street.

A police officer stops in the middle of the intersection to look at the spaceship and causes a traffic accident.

The ship stops over the Empire State Building and then destroys it.

One of the alien spaceships settles in over the White House.

Jasmine heads outside and sees the alien spaceship which has arrived over downtown.

David Levinson bikes through the packed traffic on his way out of town.

David makes his way to his father's house so they can leave the city together.

Julius drives David to Washington D.C. against the flow of traffic.

Julius and David continue their journey to the capitol.

Julius drives David through a deserted downtown Washington D.C. towards the White House.

The military helicopter equipped with light panels for communication lifts off and heads towards the alien spacecraft.

The President and others leave the White House on Marine One.

Jasmine is stuck in traffic with her son when she sees the explosion behind her. She runs into the tunnel and manages to escape into a service corridor.

A group of UFO fanatics party atop of downtown skyscraper.

Jasmine's friend Tiffany and a bunch of other UFO nuts stand atop the building in downtown L.A. under the center of the giant alien spacecraft.

People run from their cars while the city explodes.

Marine One lands at the airport and the President and his staff load onto Air Force One to escape.

Jasmine searches through the streets for a way out of the city and gathers a small band of survivors including the First Lady.

Captain Hiller takes off from this air base which is soon attacked by the aliens. Jasmine arrives at the base with her group of survivors to find it completely destroyed.

Hiller flies his jet down a narrow canyon while being pursued by one of the alien fighters. A camera was strapped to the front of a WWII-era training airplane for filming the POV shots.

Captain Hiller is picked up by the RV convoy while dragging the alien and he convinces them to head to the nearby secret military base.

Air Force One lands at the secret military base to inspect the aliens acquired at Roswell. Hiller leads the RV convoy to the base and it becomes the core the fight against the invaders.

Jasmine drives up to the gate of the air base and sees that it has been destroyed.

An air base in Iraq receives information on the upcoming coordinated attack.