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Roland Emmerich looks at his destroyed cities and smiles. In this 2025 documentary portrait, the disaster maestro explains why he enjoys blowing up the White House and flooding New York. Behind-the-scenes footage from 'Independence Day' and 'The Day After Tomorrow' intertwines with personal memories — of childhood in post-war Germany, his first steps in film, and the philosophy of spectacle. The filmmakers reveal not just a Hollywood blockbuster director, but a man who builds worlds specifically to destroy them with peculiar grace. This documentary TV movie explores the line between commercial success and artistic statement, between German precision and American scale.