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8.2 5 Seasons • 57 Episodes

Hell on Wheels - Season 5

"All roads lead to hell."

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.

Seasons

Top Cast

  • Anson Mount

    Anson Mount

    Cullen Bohannan

  • Colm Meaney

    Colm Meaney

    Thomas 'Doc' Durant

  • Robin McLeavy

    Robin McLeavy

    Eva

  • Christopher Heyerdahl

    Christopher Heyerdahl

    The Swede

  • Phil Burke

    Phil Burke

    Mickey McGinnes

  • Tim Guinee

    Tim Guinee

    Collis Huntington

  • Angela Zhou

    Angela Zhou

    Mei

  • Byron Mann

    Byron Mann

    Chang

Overview

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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Broken Trail

The story is about an aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader, saving them from a life of prostitution and indentured servitude. Compelled to do the right thing, they take the girls with them as they continue their perilous trek across the frontier, followed by a vicious gang of killers sent by the whorehouse madam who originally paid for the girls. Broken Trail weaves together two historical events: the British buying horses in the American West in the late 19th century and Chinese women being transported from the West Coast to the interior to serve as prostitutes.

Broken Trail

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