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Hell on Wheels (2011)

Drama · Western

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.

IMDb rating
8.3 (60,201 votes)
Seasons
5
Streaming (US)
Paramount+ · AMC+ · Philo · Spectrum On Demand · The Roku Channel · Plex · Xumo Play
Language
EN
Type
TV series
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Ratings refreshed Aug 19, 2026 · 5 seasons indexed

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Seasons

Season 1 (2011)

7.97 avg 10 episodes 7.8 → 8.3 43 min avg

Ep 1: 7.8 · 1,506 votesEp 2: 7.9 · 1,134 votesEp 3: 7.7 · 1,026 votesEp 4: 7.6 · 962 votesEp 5: 7.8 · 962 votesEp 6: 7.7 · 913 votesEp 7: 8.5 · 953 votesEp 8: 8.1 · 908 votesEp 9: 8.3 · 896 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 900 votes
Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Pilot7.81,506
2Immoral Mathematics7.91,134
3A New Birth of Freedom7.71,026
4Jamais je ne t'oublierai7.6962
5Bread and Circuses7.8962
6Pride, Pomp and Circumstance7.7913
7Revelations8.5953
8Derailed8.1908
9Timshel8.3896
10God of Chaos8.3900

Season 2 (2012)

8.29 avg 10 episodes 8.1 → 8.8 48 min avg

Ep 1: 8.1 · 761 votesEp 2: 8.1 · 780 votesEp 3: 8.2 · 764 votesEp 4: 8.1 · 741 votesEp 5: 8.6 · 807 votesEp 6: 8.4 · 763 votesEp 7: 8.0 · 735 votesEp 8: 8.1 · 736 votesEp 9: 8.5 · 746 votesEp 10: 8.8 · 909 votes
Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Viva La Mexico8.1761
2Durant, Nebraska8.1780
3Slaughterhouse8.2764
4Scabs8.1741
5The Railroad Job8.6807
6Purged Away with Blood8.4763
7The White Spirit8.0735
8The Lord's Day8.1736
9Blood Moon8.5746
10Blood Moon Rising8.8909

Season 3 (2013)

8.21 avg 10 episodes 8.2 → 8.3 43 min avg

Ep 1: 8.2 · 832 votesEp 2: 8.5 · 767 votesEp 3: 8.1 · 664 votesEp 4: 8.0 · 664 votesEp 5: 7.9 · 662 votesEp 6: 8.5 · 721 votesEp 7: 8.0 · 657 votesEp 8: 8.0 · 645 votesEp 9: 8.6 · 712 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 748 votes
Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Big Bad Wolf8.2832
2Eminent Domain8.5767
3Range War8.1664
4The Game8.0664
5Searchers7.9662
6One Less Mule8.5721
7Cholera8.0657
8It Happened in Boston8.0645
9Fathers and Sins8.6712
10Get Behind the Mule8.3748

Season 4 (2014)

8.32 avg 13 episodes 8.0 → 8.1 42 min avg

Ep 1: 8.0 · 719 votesEp 2: 8.4 · 680 votesEp 3: 8.3 · 653 votesEp 4: 8.0 · 650 votesEp 5: 8.5 · 690 votesEp 6: 7.3 · 840 votesEp 7: 8.8 · 1,082 votesEp 8: 8.1 · 657 votesEp 9: 8.8 · 727 votesEp 10: 8.9 · 788 votesEp 11: 8.4 · 689 votesEp 12: 8.5 · 733 votesEp 13: 8.1 · 628 votes
Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1The Elusive Eden8.0719
2Escape from the Garden8.4680
3Chicken Hill8.3653
4Reckoning8.0650
5Life's a Mystery8.5690
6Bear Man7.3840
7Elam Ferguson8.81,082
8Under Color of Law8.1657
9Two Trains8.8727
10Return to Hell8.9788
11Bleeding Kansas8.4689
12Thirteen Steps8.5733
13Further West8.1628

Season 5 (2015)

8.29 avg 14 episodes 8.0 → 8.8 44 min avg

Ep 1: 8.0 · 668 votesEp 2: 8.3 · 656 votesEp 3: 7.9 · 565 votesEp 4: 8.0 · 567 votesEp 5: 8.1 · 570 votesEp 6: 7.8 · 579 votesEp 7: 8.6 · 624 votesEp 8: 8.9 · 842 votesEp 9: 8.0 · 562 votesEp 10: 8.1 · 543 votesEp 11: 8.5 · 603 votesEp 12: 8.3 · 556 votesEp 13: 8.7 · 601 votesEp 14: 8.8 · 734 votes
Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Chinatown8.0668
2Mei Mei8.3656
3White Justice7.9565
4Struck8.0567
5Elixir of Life8.1570
6Hungry Ghosts7.8579
7False Prophets8.6624
8Two Soldiers8.9842
9Return to the Garden8.0562
1061 Degrees8.1543
11Gambit8.5603
12Any Sum Within Reason8.3556
13Railroad Men8.7601
14Done8.8734

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