David Farnor | On 18, Aug 2017

Hell on Wheels Season 5 will return for its second half this weekend on Amazon Prime Video.

Starring Anson Mount and Colm Meaney, Hell on Wheels examines the institutionalised greed and corruption behind the building of America’s Transcontinental Railroad as loyalties are abandoned and the race between the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines intensifies.

The series is executive produced by showrunner John Wirth (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Falling Skies, The Cape), Paul Kurta (Veronica Mars, Empire Records), Michael Rosenberg (Hung) and Jeremy Gold. In addition to Mount and Meaney, Hell on Wheels stars Christopher Heyerdahl, Robin McLeavy, Jennifer Ferrin, Phil Burke and Dohn Norwood.

In part two of the fifth and final season, Cullen Bohannon (Mount) finds himself a stranger in a strange land – the mountain town of Truckee, California, home to the Central Pacific Railroad. This rough railroad town teems with thousands of Chinese workers, foreign in language, culture and traditions. Despite the challenges of corralling his new workforce, Cullen leads the Herculean effort to tunnel through the Sierra Nevada Mountains, sometimes achieving only inches a day in the race to complete the first Transcontinental Railroad.

All episodes will arrive on Amazon Prime Video in the UK on Saturday 19th August. For more on what’s coming soon to Amazon Prime Video in the UK, click here.

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