Avengers: Endgame is an epic superhero film that serves as the grand culmination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Infinity Saga. Directed by the Russo brothers, the story picks up five years after Thanos wiped out half of all life, following the fractured remaining heroes as they execute a desperate time-travel heist to recover the Infinity Stones and undo the devastation. Delivering massive emotional stakes, groundbreaking action sequences, and definitive conclusions to the journeys of Iron Man and Captain America, the film became a historic cultural phenomenon and briefly held the record as the highest-grossing movie of all time.