Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

The Aviator

Leonardo DiCaprio plays the eccentric billionaire, Howard Hughes, in his early years as a film director and aviation enthusiast all the way until his mental health collapses around him. Hughes eventually succumbs to his paranoia, phobia, and delusions that destroyed the end of the tycoon's life in his later years. 

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