Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Captain America: The First Avenger is a 2011 Marvel superhero film in the Marvel Film Universe. It was directed by Joe Johnston and stars Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper and Stanely Tucci.

Plot
In 1944, Johann Schmidt gets his hands on the Tesseract, and Asgardian cube used for creating portals to other worlds. Schmidt, who leads HYDRA with the help from scientist Arnim Zola plans to use the cube to advance his weapons and win the war. Scrawny Steve Rogers wants to fight in the war just like his best friend, Bucky Barnes, but isn'y accepted due to his frail health. A german scientist working with the SSR Abraham Erskine sees Steve and recruits him for the SSR's new super-soldier program. Steve gets injected with a serum and gains enhanced strength, agility and loses all his frail health. Steve joins the army and gets a shield made out of Vibranium from Wakanda and a red, blue and white suit, becoming Captain America. With the help from Bucky, an SSR agent named Peggy Carter, Howard Stark and several other army soldiers, Steve, otherwise known as Captain America, takes on HYDRA agents all over the world. Schmidt, with the serum as well and a Red Skull plans to bomb the US with a Tesseract infused weapon. Steve and Bucky plan to defeat him via his plane, with Steve convincing Bucky to run away. However, Bucky joins Steve and after a brief confrontation with the Red Skull, Schmidt himself tries to hold the Tesseract, but fails as it teleports him away and the Tesseract is lost at Sea. Bucky plants a grenade in the ship which succeeds in blowing up the bomb and the ship, but also causes the two to be frozen in ice. The world presumes that Steve and Bucky have died, and the world mourns their death. Howard Stark leads several expeditions to try and find Steve, but only finds the Tesseract, bringing it into SSR custody. Steve is considered a hero as Captain America. In a post-credits scene, Steve awakens in a fake hospital in a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility and freaks out, escaping from the building and running into Times Square. Nick Fury arrives and tells Steve that he has been sleeping for 70 years.

Cast
Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America

Tommy Lee Jones as Chester Phillips

Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt/Red Skull

Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter

Sebastian Stan as James Buchanen "Bucky" Barnes

Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark

Neal McDonough as Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan

Derek Luke as Gabe Jones

Stanley Tucci as Abraham Erskine

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury (uncredited)