Captain America Winter Soldier (2014)

The sequel was written by Hollywood's screenwriting duo of
Christopher Markus and Stephen Mcfeely, and making their MCU debut are Anthony and Joe Russo as the film's Directors.  Producer Kevin Feige who approached the Russo's after negotiations with F. Gary Gray broke down as director, it wasn't until after watching the second season's finale episodes of the network series Community. That Feige hand picked the brothers, he was impressed with their blend of genre parody, The Russos’ came into the initial meeting and had pitched a political thriller type of film, which was heavily influenced by films like
Three Days of the Condor, a film that coincidently starred Robert Redford.

For the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America: Winter Soldier was the fifth film to be nominated for an Academy Award for visual effect. All three Iron Man movies and the original Avengers movie had all received an Oscar nod. Surprisingly, it was not a film that reached the Billion dollar club at the box office, there are only 8 out of the 23 Films that would have reached that bench mark. To give a better perspective of the whole cinematic landscape there are exactly 47 films in total that have grossed over the Billion dollar mark.  Winter soldier falls into 119th place in highest grossing films of all time.

Steve Roger's List of things missed to experience

As the name headlining the film, Steve Rogers has gone through a series of transitions; saving America from Hydra, by destroying all of Tesseract designed super weapons. He has been on ice for nearly seventy years, to return as a man out of time. He uncovers that Shield has re-developed those same weapons to fight the Chitari invasion, as a provision if the Avenger initiative would fail. Only to discover now, about four orbital crafts with a million guns pointing to the earth that can take out one million select targets  at  one time; each with surgical precision. That is in accordance to Nick Fury's pitch, as an implied deterrent, but as a means to exact peace and compliance between hostile countries. A tactic of fear similar to what he fought against in the Second World War just coated with the American banner. While this film was presented during the Obama administration it was in the wake of Edward Snowden and the NSA scandal, and with the history of the cold war to lean into, Markus and McFeely merged an espionage political thriller that shakes the core of the status quo, while it continues to maintain an identity of a superhero film that is grounded in structure of reality.  This structured reality would carry on into further earthbound MCU movies and couple of seasons of Marvel's Agents of Shield.