Hell on Wheels (2011)
All roads lead to hell.
The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.
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Cast & Crew
- Director
Cullen Bohannan Anson Mount
Thomas 'Doc' Durant Colm Meaney
Eva Robin McLeavy
The Swede Christopher Heyerdahl
Mickey McGinnes Phil Burke
Collis Huntington Tim Guinee
Mei Angela Zhou
Chang Byron Mann
Season 5
2015
14 episodes
Season 5 of Hell on Wheels premiered on July 18, 2015
Cullen Bohannon finds himself a stranger in a strange land: Truckee, California. Home to the headquarters of the Central Pacific railroad, this rough mountain railroad town teems with thousands of Chinese workers who are foreign in language, culture and traditions. While grappling with the challenges of corralling his new workforce, Cullen leads the Central Pacific’s herculean effort to tunnel through the Sierra Nevada mountains, sometimes achieving only inches a day in the race to complete America’s first Transcontinental Railroad.
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Keywords
- gunslinger
- frontier
- train
- period drama
- historical
- railroad
- wild west
- historical drama
- 19th century
- reconstruction era
- revisionist western
- 1860s
- american history