Hell on Wheels
All roads lead to hell.
Created by Tony Gayton, Joe Gayton
On AMC
A revisionist western following a vengeful Civil War veteran through a brutal, lawless railroad town, balancing historical epic scope with intimate character study and moral reckoning.
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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