Independence Day

Ellen DeGeneres, Ryan Seacrest, Britney Spears and more celebrate the Fourth.

You may think Philadelphia is the ideal place to be on the Fourth of July, but you'd be way off.

Fox made some boring Sunday football games a little more exciting yesterday, when it debuted the trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence, the long awaited sequel to the 1996 smash hit Independence Day. In the movie, the aliens driven off by the combined forces of Earth's resistance have returned 20 years later, and this time they're angry!

Remembering those times when classic rockers waved the flag.

A flashy (and often very loud) tribute to end-of-show pyromania.

Like the country, their differences are what makes the whole so much stronger.

A look at patriotic musicians simply and proudly demonstrating their love of America.

Videos of some legendary performances of the national anthem.

4th of July celebrators in San Diego, Calif. got an extremely brief but oddly spectacular fireworks show in 2012 when a malfunction caused all of the pyrotechnics to detonate at once. As you can hear in the video below, Queen's anticipation-building anthem "We Will Rock You" hangs in the air after the unintentionally short display, adding inadvertent insult to injury as the confused crow

I kept hearing all this conflicting information about where you can and where you can NOT light fireworks in or around the Lawton area so I went right to the city to ask and this is what I found out.

Fireworks are as much a part of July Fourth as barbecues, parades and red, white and blue, but have you ever stopped to think what makes them flare up in the first place?

You think you're ready for Independence Day? You've got a ways to go to match these little critters.