Hell on Wheels

Specials

TV-14

Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of a band of Union soldiers, the killers of his wife. This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the transcontinental railroad. After the war years in the 1860s, this undertaking connected the prospering east with the still wild west.

Where to Watch Hell on Wheels • Specials

6 Episodes

S01 Episode Featurettes
E9
S01 Episode FeaturettesGives some background on the following episodes: Pilot; Immoral Mathematics; A New Birth of Freedom; Jamais Je ne T'Oublierai; Bread and Circuses; Pride, Pomp and Circumstance; Revelations; Derailed; Timshel; and God of Chaos.
S01 Making-of Featurettes
E10
S01 Making-of FeaturettesOffers seven short pieces, including "About Hell on Wheels", "The Guns", "The Wardrobe", "The Meaning of the Railroad", "Building the Train", "Locations and Sets", and "Dirty Medicine".
S02 Episode Featurettes
E16
S02 Episode FeaturettesGives some background on each of the 10 episodes in Season 2.
S03 Episode Featurettes
E17
S03 Episode FeaturettesGives some background on each of the 10 episodes in Season 3.
S04 Episode Featurettes
E24
S04 Episode FeaturettesGives some background on 12 of the 13 episodes in Season 4 (all except Elam Ferguson).
S05 Episode Featurettes
E28
S05 Episode FeaturettesGives some background on each of the 14 episodes in Season 5.