TNT series attempts a Western: The German pay-TV broadcaster has secured the rights to the first two seasons of AMC's Hell on Wheels. The series is set on the edge of the construction of the transcontinental railroad after the Civil War.
In the 1860s tore the civil war between the North and South, the young nation of the United States of America. Some believe the war and its consequences are still the biggest trauma of the nation. After this devastating conflict is the series "Hell on Wheels season 1 dvd
". It is about building the railroad across the vast expanses of the American continent, the more European-influenced eastern part of the nation still linked with the "wild west". Many uprooted families and men tried their luck in the difficult construction to make. Anson Mount ("Conviction") plays the male lead, the former slave owners and Confederate soldiers Cullen Bohannan. After the Civil War, he sets out to find the murderers of his wife - soldiers of the Northern States. His hunt for the perpetrators of it goes right into the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, one of the largest projects in U.S. history.