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The Falkirk Cowboys tells a tale of friendship, industrial communities in Scotland, creativity, cinema and a social history of Falkirk across 50 years.

Nearly 50 years ago, in the unlikely setting of the British Aluminium plant in Falkirk, a group of around 20 workers put aside 15p a week from their wages to fund their other lives as film-makers. The Falkirk Cowboys tells the story of those men, their town and the impact of the films they made.

This posse of factory-working moviemakers called themselves the BA Cowboys. They were led by a fork lift driver-turned amateur film director called Rab Harvey, whose love of westerns proved so infectious that he corralled enough co-workers together to make a series of increasingly ambitious amateur films.

Falkirk Cowboys The Movie, takes inspiration from the documentary.