“A timeless, deeply moving examination of the price of dissent...”

— Martha Steger,  American Lifestyle Magazine

“Copperhead is a glowing, luxuriant tale of love and conflict – a Romeo and Juliet for the American Civil War, where loyalty and liberty tear a small town and two families to pieces. Here is the Civil War as it was fought, not on the battlefields, but in the hearts of the American people. Gorgeously filmed, a pastoral idyll.”

− Allen Guelzo, author of "Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War"
and Director, Civil War Studies Program, Gettysburg College

"After directing two epic Civil War films in Gettysburg and Gods and Generals, Ron Maxwell with Copperhead narrows his focus to a small community in upstate New York but delivers a film as tense and combustible as any of his battle films..."

— Michael Leaser, World Magazine