El calendario Maya profetizó el fin del mundo para el año 2012, que está a la vuelta de la esquina. Roland Emmerich, en su habitual afán por exterminar a la humanidad, recrea esa profecía con una espectacular puesta en escena con desastres naturales como volcanes en erupción, huracanes y tsunamis.
Guión: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
Coproducción: Aaron Boyd, Volker Engel, Marc Weigert
Producción: Roland Emmerich, Larry J. Franco, Harald Kloser
Producción ejecutiva: Ute Emmerich, Mark Gordon, Michael Wimer
Producción asociada: Kirstin Winkler
Música: Harald Kloser
Fotografía: Dean Semler
Montaje: David Brenner, Peter S. Elliot
Casting: Susan Taylor Brouse, Scott David, Judy Lee, April Webster
Diseño de producción: Barry Chusid
Dirección artística: Ross Dempster, Kendelle Elliott, Dan Hermansen, Don Macaulay
Vestuario: Shay Cunliffe
Maquillaje: Gitte Axen, Cara Doell, Amanda McGowan, Thomas Nellen, Connie Parker, Lisa Taylor Roberts, Forest Sala
Departamento artístico: Andy Aitken, Britt Bancroft, Greg Bartkus, Alistair Bell, Brent Bennett, Laurel Bergman, Eli Best, Ea Birkett, Peter Bodnarus, Nancy Anna Brown, Timothy Burgard, John Burke, Maureen Carey, Niki Charalambopoulos, Jason Claridge, David Clarke, James Clyne, Max Daly, Gavin De West, David Dowling, Warren Flanagan, Doug Girling, Andrew Glavina, Harry Griffin-Beale, Wes Hamby, Doug Hardwick, Zack Heath, Eliza Hooker, Sally Hudson, Catherine Ircha, Tex Kadonaga, Andrew Li, Spencer Louttit, Ignacio McBurney, Marta McLaughlin, Wayne McLaughlin, J.J. Mestinsek, Peter Ochotta, Eric Partridge, Hamish Purdy, Margot Ready, Ernie Rinard, Andrew Semple, Andrew M. Siegel, Dennis Simard, Robert K. Smith, Wyatt Soutzo, Peter Stratford, Anne Tobin, Kevin Tomecek, Mark Tompkins, Adrien Van Viersen, Sandy Walker, Carie Wallis, Loree Wershler, Matthew Wilson, Kay Yamanaka, Milena Zdravkovic
Sonido: Graham Crowell, Greg Hannas, Jamie Hardt, Gary A. Hecker, Martin Lacroix, Eric Lamontagne, Michael McGee, Paul N.J. Ottosson, Graham Timmer
Efectos especiales: Jim Boulden, Dan Cervin, Damian Fisher, Brent Gloeckler, Allan B. Holt, Robert Luo, Dale Shippam, Mike Vézina, Cam Waldbauer, Joel Whist
Efectos visuales: Dave Adams, Papavramides Alexandra, Jeff Atherton, Andra Bard, James Battersby, Geoffrey E. Baumann, Eric M. Beaver, Stephen Bennett, Niki Bern, Andrea Biklian, Rene Borst, John Bozzalla, Jamie Briens, Kevin R. Browne, Nik Brownlee, Matthew Douglas Brown, Erik Bruhwiler, Deborah Carlson, Stephen Chan, Daniel Chavez, Adam Chazen, Vanessa Cheung, Chad E. Collier, Andrew M. Collins, Cameron Coombs, Lee Croft, Will Cunningham, Rif Dagher, Yoshi DeHerrera, Ante Dekovic, Gareth Dinneen, Nathan Dunsworth, Minh Duong, Joël Einhorn, Tamer Eldib, Mohsen Eletreby, Volker Engel, Thilo Ewers, Paul Fedor, Chad Finnerty, Felix Fissel, Richard Fox, Mike Foyle, Andreas Frickinger, Eric Galoob, Ignacio Garcerón, Demitre Garza, Gillian George, Jack Shahram Ghoulian, Deborah Giarratana, Matthew Gilson, Geoffroy Givry, Steven Glazer, Christina Graff, Paul Graff, Robin Scott Graham, Don Greenberg, Jon Green, Jon Grinberg, Michael Grobe, John Grotelueschen, Dean Grubb, Miguel A. Guerrero, Alex Guri, Brian Hajek, Jason M. Halverson, John H. Han, Pete Hanson, Michael S. Harbour, Ahmed Hassan, Peter Herlein, Nathan Hurlburt, Atsushi Imamura, Isaac Irvin, Travis Wade Ivy, Andreas Jablonka, John L. Jack, Josh R. Jaggars, Jonathan Jamison, Will Johnson, Jaimie Lee Jota, Dave Kim, Nicholas Kim, Katharina Koepke, Dean Koonjul, Anthony Kramer, Daniel Kruse, Alexander Kucera, Christian Kugler, Martin Kulig, Steve Kullback, Billy-Vu Lam, Mårten Larsson, Gary Laurie, Stafford Lawrence, Sun Lee, Kymber Lim, Gresham Lochner, Dave Lo, Venessa Loubert, Zachary Lo, Robert Luo, Marco Marenghi, Lisa Marra, Andres Martinez, Wendy Mashburn, Kirk Mawhinney, Matt McDonald, John McGee, Chris McLeod, Naveen Medaram, Joel Román Mendías, Steven Messing, Scott Michelson, Steven Miller, Michele Moen, Alberto Montañés, Chris F. Moore, Mohsen Mousavi, Kyle Mulqueen, Mike Murphy, Howie Muzika, Alessandro Nardini, Chun Seong Ng, Vinh Nguyen, Ian Northrop, Ezekiel Norton, Jean Claude Nouchy, Jordan Nounnan, Cenay Oekmen, Peter Pace, Eugene Paluso, Bruno Parenti, Daniel Pastore, Patrick Perez, Christine Peterson, Danielle Plantec, Gal Ratner, Julia Reinhard, Brett Reyenger, Tim Riley, Brian Ripley, Rick Rische, Gizmo Rivera, Federico Rivia, Karl Rogovin, Daniel P. Rosen, Michael S. Ruscheinsky, Olivier Ryard, Krystal Sae Eua, Christopher Sanchez, David Satchwell, Erick Schiele, David Schoneveld, Jason Selfe, Jeff Shank, Clancy Silver, Andrew Simmonds, Sally Slade, Brian Smallwood, Jeremy Smith, Katie Spinelli, Marc Steinberg, Jason Stellwag, Paul Venn Stirling, Colin Strause, Greg Strause, Frederick George Stuhrberg, Kristen Swanson, Hirofumi Takeda, Aaron Tankenson, Dann Tarmy, Rodrigo Teixeira, Scott Tessier, Stephan Trojansky, Melanie Rose Tucker, Max Tyrie, Christian Waite, Michael Anthony Oakley Walls, Jun Watanabe, Marc Weigert, Mark H. Weingartner, Neil West, Cameron Widen, Marco Wilz, Patrick Wolf, Alex Wuttke, Chris Qi Yao, Fikret Yildirim, Leanne Young, Andrea Lackey Pace
Casting: Shaun Balbar, Susan Taylor Brouse, Andrea Brown, Sara Brown, Scott David, Gina Garcia, Judy Lee
Vestuario: Andre Brouwer, Eduardo Castro, Dawn Climie, Luisa Dalmagro, John Denison, Erin Evans, David Fernandez, Alison Fraser, Betsy Glick, Lise Hache, Kevin Harrison, Jessica Lythgoe-Green, Michele Maillet, Karin Nosella, Lauren M. Walker, Michael Welch
Departamento editorial: Cassie Dixon, Robert Hatfield, Thom Kyle, Robert Malina, Richard B. Molina
Departamento de transportes: Blue Angus, Nick Diomis, Tim Fortin, J. Armin Garza II, Mark Hoeppner, Paul Irvine, Jimmy Ray Pickens, Barrie Poirier, Chris Raines, Rick Rasmussen, Paul E. Stroh