The independent film “COPPERHEAD” billed as the ‘great untold Civil War story’ will open nationwide in select cities on June 28, 2013.

Directed by Ron Maxwell (“Gettysburg,” “Gods and Generals”) , and featuring a cast that included Billy Campbell (ABC drama “Once and Again”), Angus Macfadyen (Braveheart), Academy Award nominated Peter Fonda, and Augustus Prew (Charlie St. Cloud) COPPERHEAD is based on the novel by Harold Frederic who witnessed these conflicts firsthand as a small child.

Copperhead tells the story of Abner Beech, a stubborn and righteous farmer of Upstate New York, who defies his neighbors and his government in the bloody and contentious autumn of 1862.

Theaters showing COPPERHEAD