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Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

124 min · Action

48 MILD

ScoutScore

Worth a quick check before you press play.

Captain America: The First Avenger scores 48 on the ScoutScore, which is Mild. Worth a quick check before you press play. FilmScout maps 17 flagged scenes and 6 worth muting.

A ScoutScore is a living number. We re-check movies against the source and raise or lower it when we find something the first pass missed, so a score you see today can differ from one you saw last month.

What FilmScout flagged

Heads up	11
Mute	6

Content map

How this movie's flagged content divides up. These are shares of what was flagged here, not a level: a movie with very little flagged content can still be 80% one kind.

Mostly violence and action.

Scary and dark	22%
Violence and action	55%
Language and substances	0%
Mature themes	23%
All flagged content	100%

Direction is the kind of content. Reach is the ScoutScore, which is how much there is: green at the centre, yellow, orange, then red at the edge.

Scenes FilmScout flagged

HEADS UP Hydra raids Norwegian village
HEADS UP Schmidt reveals the Tesseract and removes his mask
HEADS UP Steve gets beaten up in an alley
HEADS UP Steve jumps on grenade
HEADS UP Super-soldier experiment and Erskine's assassination
HEADS UP Assassin bites cyanide capsule
HEADS UP Schmidt kills Nazi officers with Tesseract weapon
HEADS UP Bucky's unit reported captured or killed
Mute Rescue raid on Hydra factory (begins)
Mute Rescue raid on Hydra factory (continues)

Where each one lands in the runtime, and alerts that arrive before it does, are in the app.

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Talk about it after

“Steve Rogers volunteers to crash the plane into the ocean to protect millions of people he has never met. What do you think it felt like for him to make that choice, and what helps people find the courage to put others first even when it costs them everything?”

This guide tells you before. The app tells you during.

Every scene above is timed. The FilmScout app listens to the movie and taps you 30 seconds before each one, so you can skip it, mute it, or talk it through. Free to start on iPhone.

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Common questions

Is Captain America: The First Avenger okay for kids?

Captain America: The First Avenger scores 48 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, which places it in the Mild tier. Worth a quick check before you press play. FilmScout has mapped 17 flagged scenes in it, covering action, theme, dark imagery. The right answer depends on your child, which is why FilmScout shows you the scenes instead of giving a verdict.

What is the ScoutScore for Captain America: The First Avenger?

48, which is the Mild tier. The ScoutScore is driven by the intensity of a movie's heaviest moments rather than how many it has.

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Each flagged moment with its place in the runtime, plus live alerts that follow along while you watch.

ScoutScores are FilmScout's own scene by scene analysis and change as the catalog is rescored. FilmScout is independent and is not affiliated with, licensed by, or endorsed by any studio or ratings board.

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