This is back when movies actually put effort into world building.

Holy Christ, I've seen this movie hundreds of times and I had no idea about those broadcasts

This reminds me a bit of analog horror. Also, this is really cool. Props to the filmmakers for making so much that never made it into the movie.

Always wanted to see the news coverage of the Invasion, the segments really showed everything that was happening around the world but was barely shown in the movie in favor of American cities and yet the production put great effort into segments that at the time were to be never seen and just play in the background. Love that they have been brought together to create a alternate 1995 where aliens invaded.

I cannot believe I only now in 2022 am finding out about this kino. This is back when film makers valued making real art. At least we still have Tom Cruise, the hero who saved movies.

It almost feel like a historic archive. Like we surivived the war of 96

5 years before 9/11 but you do get a feeling similar to watching the news that morning.

The LA fox station told people not to fire guns at the ships... The ship over Chicago was destroyed 10 seconds after it appeared and then the aliens who made it out of the wreckage all got robbed or shot within the 10 seconds after that.

Meanwhile in the alternate world of 1996.

President Whitmore: “Beebop balubab be my baby!”

"The phenomenon has not caused any damage. In all likelihood it will not."

The newscaster begging the people of L.A. to not fire their guns at the aliens will never get old 😂

Wow. They put some serious effort in.

Someone tell me or smack me cause I gobsmacked myself...did they SERIOUSLY create ACTUAL full news broadcast stories made to look SO REAL...JUST for this film?? Amazing. Absolutely amazing. This adds a WHOLE NEW dimension to the film which is already one of my favorites in creation. Wow. Just wow. What a treat!! Thank you for uploading!! I knew I wasn't crazy for trying to imagine that the alien invasion could theoretically be so real and for trying to imagine the implications of it occurring in real life..

That's amazing, they really did this.

This is so cool. I was looking at the cast for Independence Day and was surprised to see Ron Pitts in a small role. I am familiar with him from his longtime work at the NFL on Fox. He was actually a part of their inaugural season in 1994.

Do love these news reports, a real effort in world building for these sorts of movies so rarely seen.

Compared to what we saw in the film itself, they have put a lot into this despite not needing to. Impressive

I love the little nod to War of the worlds with the "Diplomatic relations with the ants" bit

Cool! News footage from the War of 1996!