COWBOYS to play at Peerless Nov. 14-15

“COWBOYS: A Documentary Portrait” will be playing at the Peerless Theatre in Holyoke Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 15, at 4 p.m.

Told in the cinematic tradition of classic westerns, “COWBOYS” is a feature-length film that gives viewers the opportunity to ride alongside modern working cowboys on some of America’s largest and most remote cattle ranches.

The movie documents the lives of the men and women working on these “big outfit” ranches ­— some of which are over 1 million acres  — that still require full crews of horseback-mounted workers to tend large herds of cattle.

Narrated through first-hand accounts from the cowboys themselves, the story is steeped in authenticity and explores the rewards and hardships of a celebrated but misunderstood way of life, including the challenges that lie ahead for the cowboys critical to providing the world’s supply of beef.

The film is immersed in the unvarnished reality of the contemporary West and is a deeper meditation on the nature of obsolescence.