Hell on Wheels (2007 film)

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Not to be confused with the cycling film, originally titled Höllentour; a 2005 film about the Tour de France from the perspective of the Germany's T-Mobile Team with the US release titled Hell on Wheels or the 1967 film about car racing also called Hell on Wheels.

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Hell on Wheels is a documentary film about a group of tattooed rock and roll chicks who struggle to resurrect the sport of roller derby. The women find themselves locked in a workers-versus-management clash and a rift forms in the ranks, ripping the league in two. The two leagues overcome all obstacles to revel in undreamed of success, inspiring dozens of other leagues to start up across the US and launching a roller derby revival.

Roller Derby is the fastest growing women’s sport in America.^{[citation needed]} Currently there are over 100 leagues organizing or operating in the US, Canada, Europe and beyond.^{[citation needed]} But back in 2001, the world of roller derby was nothing but a memory of the glory days more than three decades prior.^{[citation needed]} Not a single league was holding bouts when a small group of women from Austin’s music and arts scene decided to put a new spin on the old sport.^{[citation needed]} The film follows a group of women who re-create roller derby and inadvertently inspire thousands of women to follow suit.