From Emmy®-winner Tom Fontana, Academy Award®-nominee Will Rokos and Academy Award®-winner Barry Levinson.

BBC America’s first original scripted series,”Copper,” is set in 1860s New York City. The 10-part drama centers on Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones, “MI-5″), an intense, rugged Irish-American cop working the city’s notorious Five Points neighborhood. Corcoran is struggling to maintain his moral compass in a turbulent world, while on an emotional and relentless quest to learn the truth about the disappearance of his wife and the death of his daughter. His friendship with two Civil War compatriots – the wayward son of a wealthy industrialist and an African American physician who secretly assists Corcoran with his detective work – takes him to the contrasting worlds of elegant Fifth Avenue and an emerging African-American community in rural northern Manhattan. The three men share a secret from their experience on the battlefield that inextricably links their lives forever.

The series is created by Tom Fontana (“Oz,” “Homicide: Life on the Streets,” “St. Elsewhere”) and Will Rokos (“Monster’s Ball,” “Southland”) and among the executive producers are Barry Levinson (“Good Morning Vietnam,” “Rain Man,” “You Don’t Know Jack”), Cineflix Media Co-CEO Glen Salzman and Cineflix Studios President Christina Wayne (“Broken Trail” and executive in charge of “Mad Men”), Fontana and Rokos.

The cast includes Franka Potente (“The Bourne Supremacy,” “Run Lola Run”), Kyle Schmid (“Blood Ties,” “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”), Anastasia Griffith (“Royal Pains,” “Damages”), Ato Essandoh (“Damages”), Kevin Ryan (“Tripping Tommy”) , Tanya Fischer (“The Defenders,” “Life on Mars”), Dylan Taylor (“Covert Affairs”), Ron White (“The Line”), Kiara Glasco (“Angel Duty”), Tessa Thompson (“Heroes”) and David W. Keeley (“Rookie Blue”).