# Name of the movie for SILK ROAD

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**Created:** [December 14, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-the-movie-for-silk-road/1011639 "2024-12-14T22:20:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sim77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Sim77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sim77)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-the-movie-for-silk-road/1011639/1 "2024-12-14T22:20:43Z")

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One friend of mine told me about a movie and the story was some people were looking to find a way through himalaya because they wanted to reach china by foot of course. Can anybody remember something ?

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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-the-movie-for-silk-road/1011639/2 "2024-12-14T23:53:01Z")

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> **[The Way Back (2010 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Back_(2010_film))**
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> The Way Back is a 2010 American survival film directed by Peter Weir, from a screenplay by Weir and Keith Clarke. The film is inspired by The Long Walk (1956), the memoir by former Polish prisoner of war Sławomir Rawicz, who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet Gulag and walked 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to freedom in World War II. The film stars Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, and Saoirse Ronan, with Alexandru Potocean, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Gustaf Skarsgård, Dragoș Bucur and Mark Strong.
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> **[Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years_in_Tibet_(1997_film))**
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> Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 American biographical war drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is based on Austrian mountaineer and Schutzstaffel (SS) sergeant Heinrich Harrer's 1952 memoir of the same name, about his experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951. Seven Years in Tibet stars Brad Pitt and David Thewlis, and has music composed by John Williams with a feature performance by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
> In the film, Harrer (Pitt) and fellow Austrian Peter Aufschnaiter (Thewlis) are mou...

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**Author:** ![Sim77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Sim77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sim77)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-the-movie-for-silk-road/1011639/3 "2024-12-15T07:31:16Z")

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I know these movies , but the story of the movie i am looking for is about silk road and medieval times , not modern

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**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-the-movie-for-silk-road/1011639/4 "2024-12-15T07:54:17Z")

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It wasn’t a movie about Marco Polo was it?

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**Author:** ![Sim77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Sim77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sim77)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-the-movie-for-silk-road/1011639/5 "2024-12-15T09:04:52Z")

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Maybe , i am not sure