Hell on Wheels(2011)

series - first aired/released 2011-11-06 - audience 7.6

Action & Adventure, Drama, Western

Directed by Adam Davidson, Alex Zakrzewski, Billy Gierhart, Catherine Hardwicke, Clark Johnson, David Straiton, David Von Ancken, Dennie Gordon, Deran Sarafian, Jeremy Webb, Joe Gayton, John Shiban, Karen Gaviola, Marvin V. Rush, Michael Nankin, Michael Slovis, Michelle MacLaren, Neil LaBute, Phil Abraham, Rod Lurie, Roxann Dawson, Seith Mann, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Terry McDonough

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.