Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning, is invading a new streaming platform in March. Find out more.

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12. Independence Day The disaster movie genre tends to see a resurgence every decade or so, and "Independence Day" kicked off one such resurgence in the mid-1990s. It's one part disaster movie, one ...