Overheating and now shut off and will not start

My gauge went all the way to the "H". I pulled over turn the car off the car there was no steam coming out. It did take eight bottles of water. I had to buy case of water. Then I drove it and the gauge started going up like when I was in the highway doing sixty. I pulled over the gauge went down, then I drove it doing probably no more than thirty miles an hour and it was fine and then all the sudden it shut off. I am sitting here right now and it will not start. It shut off when I was driving it.