Beltway Brawl, Washington, DC | MCU Location Scout

Bullet ridden cars stopped on an overpass with people approaching with guns.

Taking fire above and below expressway.

Beltway Brawl [In -Universe]

If this were happening in the real world, the Beltway Brawl begins on I-395 in DC, spills over onto 4th St SW, and then up to Virginia Ave SW. Natasha asks for an extraction at 2300 Virginia Ave SW.

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Beltway Brawl

As Steve, Natasha, and Sam transport Sitwell back to disable Project: Insight, the Winter Soldier leaps onto the car and pulls Sitwell out, killing him.

The car appears to be traveling westbound on I-395/I-695 in southwest Washington, DC. However, these scenes were shot on the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway.

  • High angle shot of cars on freeway overpass.
  • A man in the middle of a busy freeway lane.
  • High angle view of characters laying on freeway overpass.
  • Man sitting on hood of HumVee on a freeway overpass.

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Beltway Brawl, Bridge

The Winter Soldier destroys the hero’s car, and with a STRIKE Team closing in, there seems to be little chance of survival. Steve is blown off this bridge by an explosion, and Natasha leaps off, swinging underneath with a grappling line.

  • A shootout on a crowded freeway overpass, as civilians run away.
  • Natasha swing off a freeway overpass by a burning car.

Beltway Brawl, 4th Street

Once the action leaves the Highway, the heroes leap down onto street level. Steve saves people in a bus, as the three engage and disarm the thugs with Winter Soldier.

This sequence was filmed under the bridge of the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway at West 3rd St.

  • Three men repel off a freeway overpass to the street below.
  • Three men under an overpass fire machine guns at a bus.
  • The Winter Soldier in front of a building.

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Beltway Brawl, Virginia Avenue

The Winter Soldier thinks he has Natasha pinned down, but she outsmarts him. Steve then catches up and goes one-on-one with his former best friend, Bucky, before being subdued and apprehended, along with Sam and Natasha, by STRIKE Agents.

  • The Winter Soldier approaches a minvan.
  • Close up of cell phone on ground.
  • A car explodes on a city street by the Winter Soldier.
  • Cars stopped outside a Federal building.
  • Steve Rogers fight the Winter Soldier in a street.
  • Steve Rogers fight the Winter Soldier in a street.

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(Captain America: The Winter Soldier, 2014)