Winter Soldier Movie Facts
46 of the most interesting Winter Soldier facts you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Winter Soldier movie message.


Winter Soldier Movie Trivia Facts
These trivia from Reddit and other sources can be used as questions with answers in quizzes or games.
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Nick Fury relates a story of his grandfather being an elevator operator. In real-life, Samuel L. Jackson's grandfather was an elevator operator.
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Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) tells a story about his grandfather working as an elevator operator who clutches a lunch bag filled with $1's and a small gun. Jackson has confirmed his real-life grandfather operated an elevator who carried a sack of $1's and a gun.
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Incorporates a slowed-down version of Bucky's scream as he fell to his supposed death in the previous film, Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).
Winter Soldier Easter Eggs
Hidden objects, characters, easter eggs, and their meanings are wonderful ways to discover the filmmaker's perspectives of any given movie.
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Joss Whedon (director of Avengers 1 & 2) has a cameo as the man coming down the escalator during the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum scene. -
- Sitwell's Confession mentions Steven Strange before Dr. Strange (2016) came out.
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We learn that Cap has watched "Star Wats", but not "Star Trek". -
When Steve talks with old Peggy she says "You are alive. You came back." In Avengers: Endgame (2019) it is revealed that Steve time traveled and ''came back" to her, with the two resuming their lives together.
Winter Soldier Hidden Facts

The dispatch asks for the shooter without knowing the cause of Nick Fury's injury. Evidence that S.H.E.I.L.D has been infiltrated

When Rumlow attacks Captain America with a stun stick, they both tremble for a few moments because they are making contact, allowing the current to pass through both the of them.

Which came out over 2 years before Civil War, there's a clip that heavily hints at the twist at the end of Civil War, that Bucky killed Tony Stark's parents


Natasha saves Steve's life in a blink and you'll miss it moment in the car (0:13)(explanation in comments)


When Cap tells Black Widow that he didn't know what Fury was doing in his apartment, she tells him he's a horrible liar. In the next scene, when Alexander Pierce asks him the same question, he really changes his method somberly.

Black Widow (being a trained killer herself) knows that WS will aim for head-shots so she moves both Steve and Sam away from their headrests.
The Helicarriers have their Shield emblems painted in red since they're really Hydra's Helicarriers


When Natasha tosses one of her taser discs at Winter Soldier's arm to fry the circuits and disable it, we see it leaves the metal underneath charred. This is also why his arm is being repaired after the fight.

The song "It's Been A Long, Long Time" by Harry James and Kitty Kallen is playing, a song about reuniting after World War 2, foreshadowing Bucky's reappearance.
When Cap first fights Bucky he has his shield on his left arm for defense then switches it to his right to go on the offense.
Steve Rogers steals his Captain America uniform from the museum. Later in the post-credits scene, Bucky visits the same museum and we see Captain America's mannequin has been removed.
![1 - Joe Russo's character (Dr. Fine) was key to keeping Nick Fury alive not just under the dam but in the SHIELD Operating Room as well. Romanoff and Rogers hadn't noticed it was the same doctor: "They cut you open; your heart stopped." [de-gored the title]](https://i.redd.it/y82yxasu6ty11.png)
Cap mentions he wouldn't know what to do with himself if he got out. Sam replied "ultimate fighting?" Georges St-Pierre, an Ultimate Fighter, stars in the film as Batroc the Leaper.
Sam's knife attack cuts the mook's rappelling line and rifle sling, enabling him to kick him off the bridge and keep the rifle.





Nick Fury's tombstone has a quote from Ezekiel 25:17. This is the same passage that Samuel L. Jackson's character, Jules, recites in Pulp Fiction (1994) before he executes someone.
Cap 'borrows' a car, prompting Black Widow to ask "Where did you learn to steal a car?". This is a reference to the 1990 Captain America film (starring Matt Salinger), wherein Cap (on two occasions) feigns illness in order to steal an innocent person's car.




Winter Soldier Plot
For three days in 1971, former US soldiers who were in Vietnam testify in Detroit about their war experiences. Nearly 30 speak, describing atrocities personally committed or witnessed, ...
Cast and Details
Here are the full cast and crew of Winter Soldier. The goofs, crazy credits, and trivia they have performed may have not taken your attention. Some are hidden for a reason, while others randomly forgotten.
Genre | Documentary, History, War |
Stars | Rusty Sachs, Joe Bangert, Scott Shimabukuro, Kenneth Campbell |
IMDB score | 8.2 |