Hatfields & McCoys

The History Channel Hatfields & McCoys chronicles the epic, true tale of close friends turned enemies, both bonded by their oath to the same Confederate flag. The infamous back country feud that became an American legend begins with "Devil" Anse Hatfield (Costner) and Randall McCoy (Paxton), close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, when they return to their neighboring homes—Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky—to increasing tensions, misunderstandings, and resentments that soon explode into all-out warfare between the families as an illicit love affair triggers warfare between the two former comrades and their clans. As hostilities grow, friends, neighbors, and outside forces join the fight, bringing the two states to the brink of another Civil War. (Gary Reber)