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Hell on Wheels (2011–2016)

AMC · Drama, Action, Western · 5 seasons · 60 min

Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. The series follows the Union Pacific Railroad and its surveyors, laborers, prostitutes, mercenaries, and others who lived, worked and died in the mobile encampment called "Hell on Wheels" that followed the railhead west across the Great Plains. In particular, the story focuses on Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier who, while working as foreman and chief engineer on the railroad, initially attempts to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son during the American Civil War.

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Seasons

  1. Season 1 · 10 episodes · 2011
  2. Season 2 · 10 episodes · 2012
  3. Season 3 · 10 episodes · 2013
  4. Season 4 · 13 episodes · 2014
  5. Season 5 · 14 episodes · 2015

Cast

  • Anson Mount
    Cullen Bohannon
  • Colm Meaney
    Thomas "Doc" Durant
  • Phil Burke
    Mickey McGinnes
  • Robin McLeavy
    Eva
  • Common
    Elam Ferguson
  • Ben Esler
    Sean McGinnes
  • Christopher Heyerdahl
    Thor Gunderson / The Swede
  • Dohn Norwood
    Psalms
  • Kasha Kropinski
    Ruth
  • Dominique McElligott
    Lily Bell
  • Eddie Spears
    Joseph Black Moon
  • Tom Noonan
    Reverend Nathaniel Cole

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