All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Roland Emmerich, ranked

On July 2, 1996, an enormous mothership orbits the Earth, deploying multiple saucers, each with a fifteen-mile radius, that take positions over Earth’s major cities. With help from his ex-wife, White House Communications Director Constance Spano, David and his father Julius gain access to the Oval Office and alert President Thomas Whitmore to the threat.

Jack Hall, an American paleoclimatologist, and his colleagues Frank and Jason, drill for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA, when the ice shelf suddenly begins to split away. Professor Terry Rapson, an oceanographer of the Hedland Centre in Scotland befriends Jack over his views of an inevitable climate shift.

Jack Hall, an American paleoclimatologist, and his colleagues Frank and Jason, drill for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA, when the ice shelf suddenly begins to split away. Professor Terry Rapson, an oceanographer of the Hedland Centre in Scotland befriends Jack over his views of an inevitable climate shift.

The Moon is knocked from its orbit by an unknown force and put onto a collision course with Earth. Two astronauts and a conspiracy theorist work together to attempt to avert disaster and discover that the moon is not what it seems.

Twenty years after the devastating interstellar war against alien invaders, the United Nations has founded the Earth Space Defense, a global defense and research program that reverse-engineers alien technology and serves as Earth’s early warning system against extraterrestrial threats. It is revealed that people such as former U.S. President Thomas Whitmore, Dr. Brackish Okun, and Umbutu are telepathically linked to the aliens’ collective consciousness, following personal encounters, and have visions of an unidentified spherical object.