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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics leader and director of the film Hell's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes ended up being an effective movie producer and an aviation magnate while at the same time expanding extra unsteady because of serious obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

The brief yet much proclaimed flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, Bookmarks 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Beach The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage minis developed by New Bargain Studios get on display at the Evergreen Aeronautics Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse in danger his life in other means, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later getting TWA off the ground much to the dismay of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Aviator with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers had to focus both on previous accounts of Hughes' behaviors along with the time period, considered that when Hughes was dealing with the disorder, there was no psychological definition wherefore troubled him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Aviator was released in the USA on December 25, 2004, to positive evaluations with critics praising Scorsese's direction, its cinematography and the performances by DiCaprio and Blanchett.