Movies by Roland Emmerich
As part of the cast:
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Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies (2000)
Cast: Bill Mumy, Will Smith, Roland Emmerich …
Directed by: Shelley Lyons
Narrated by Bill Mumy (Will Robinson from TV's "Lost in Space"), this documentary spotlights some of the most thrilling scenes the disaster genre has ever produced. From 1970s classics…
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Anonymous (2011)
Cast: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Who was Shakespeare? This Elizabethan drama imagines that the man we call the Bard really didn't pen his body of timeless plays. The stages of London erupt in intrigue as the real author…
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2012 (2009)
Cast: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
When volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters suddenly threaten to destroy the world, a divorced father desperately attempts to save his family -- unaware that a conspiracy is afoot…
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10,000 B.C. (2008)
Cast: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait, Omar Sharif …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Fierce mammoth hunter D'Leh sets out on an impossible journey to rescue the woman he loves from a warlord and save the people of his village. While venturing into unknown territories,…
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
After years of unabated global warming, the greenhouse effect is wreaking havoc all over the globe in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and, most ominously,…
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The Patriot (2000)
Cast: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Widower Benjamin Martin wants nothing more than to live in peace and farm his land, but when a cruel British officer brings the American Revolution to Martin's door and threatens what he…
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Godzilla (1998)
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Vicki Lewis, Malcolm Danare …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
When a freighter is attacked in the Pacific Ocean, a team of experts, including a biologist and two scientists, concludes that an oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the big lizard…
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Independence Day (1996)
Cast: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
When aliens in enormous spacecraft suddenly arrive in Earth's atmosphere and start blowing things up, it falls to a cocky pilot (Will Smith) and a goofy scientist (Jeff Goldblum) to save…
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Stargate (1994)
Cast: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Alexis Cruz …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Dr. Daniel Jackson, a scholar of ancient hieroglyphics, signs on to help the Air Force unlock the mystery of a stone archway that's really a portal to another universe. There, they…
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Universal Soldier (1992)
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Deep within a government complex, dead soldiers are resurrected as superhuman cyborgs. When the experiment spirals out of control, only the original universal soldier can take on this elite…
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Moon 44 (1990)
Cast: Brian Thompson, Dean Devlin, Lisa Eichhorn …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
In 2038, at a remote outpost on Moon 44, Galactic Mining Corp. agent Felix Stone (Michael Paré) embarks on a dangerous mission to stop the hijacking of precious natural resources…
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Ghost Chase (1987)
Cast: Jason Lively, Tim McDaniel, Leonard Lansink …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Two young filmmakers (Jason Lively, Tim McDaniel) are struggling to come up with the money to finance their horror flick when one of them (Lively) discovers he's inherited a small…
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The Noah's Ark Principle (1984)
Cast: Richy Muller, Richy Müller, Franz Buchrieser …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Sometime in the future, international space station Florida Arklab orbits the Earth with a two-man crew providing global weather forecasts. But when a hostage crisis in the Middle East…