: The story details his ambitious, costly production of the war epic Hell’s Angels and his fierce legal battle against Pan Am and Senator Owen Brewster for control of international flight routes.
: Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Hughes as an obsessive pioneer who breaks world speed records, founds TWA, and builds the mammoth H-4 Hercules ("Spruce Goose") .
The Aviator (2004), directed by Martin Scorsese, is a biographical drama that chronicles the high-flying life and turbulent mental health of Howard Hughes.