Hell on Wheels (Seasons 1–5)

Hell on Wheels (2011–2016) — watch online on iFILM: AMC's five-season western drama set in the brutal, muddy world of post-Civil War railroad construction. Anson Mount stars as Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier who joins the westward push of the first transcontinental railroad not to build anything — but to hunt down the men who killed his wife.

That hunt drops him into the Hell on Wheels camp: a lawless town on wheels that moves west mile by mile alongside the Union Pacific tracks. Colm Meaney plays Thomas Durant, the railroad's ruthless financier, happy to bribe senators and bury workers to hit his deadlines. Common plays Elam Ferguson, a freed slave carving out dignity in a world that would prefer he didn't exist. Robin McLeavy plays Eva, who carries her own scarred history. The Cheyenne, whose land is being cut in half, are neither villains nor background — they push back.

Five seasons, no soft landings. The show tracks Bohannon from revenge to something murkier: accountability, leadership, the question of what a man owes the people around him when he can't leave. Shot on location to look like 1865 feels rather than Hollywood's version of it. Stream all seasons of Hell on Wheels on iFILM.