Editing Silver City, New Mexico (section)

==In popular culture==
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Silver City was the finish line in the 2001 movie ''[[Rat Race (film)|Rat Race]]'', in which several people race from [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]] to a locker containing $2 million in Silver City's train station. In reality, there is no longer a train station in Silver City and the movie was not filmed in Silver City.

Silver City is mentioned in the 2007 film ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'', whose screenplay was written by Paul Thomas Anderson and was based on the 1927 novel ''[[Oil!]]'' by [[Upton Sinclair]].<ref>"Reel NM: Dan Mayfield Talks Movies: Something Terrific in State of Utah, Friday, January 25, 2008." Dan Mayfield, ''The Albuquerque Journal''</ref> Upton Sinclair based his novel on the experiences of [[Edward L. Doheny]], a prospector and oil tycoon living in the Silver City area (near [[Kingston, New Mexico|Kingston]]). In the movie, Henry, the man claiming to be Daniel's half-brother, says that he had been in Silver City for two years drilling on his own.

In the 1956 film ''[[Backlash (1956 film)|Backlash]]'', Jim Slater, played by [[Richard Widmark]], goes to Silver City with the body of the deputy sheriff he killed. Slater is advised to leave quickly for [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]] by the sheriff, who advises him, "We don't like gunfights here in Silver City."

In the 2010 road trip movie ''[[Friendship!]]'', the two friends Veit and Tom are stopped and arrested by Silver City police because of driving naked. Since their car was damaged, they need to rest and raise some money in Silver City for getting their car repaired before being able to continue their trip.

The film ''[[A Boy Called Sailboat]]'' was filmed in and near Silver City in 2016.

In 1954 the film [[Salt of the Earth (1954 film)|''Salt of the Earth'']], one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view, centers on a long and difficult strike, based on the 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company in Grant County. The movie featured many local non-actors, the movie was not filmed in Silver City but in a small town 17 miles east.

Silver City is also mentioned in several episodes in the highly rated [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] series ''[[The Rifleman]]'' (1958–1963) starring [[Chuck Connors]] in the title role. Silver City is located some distance from the fictional North Fork town where the program is situated.

Silver City is mentioned in [[Marty Robbins]]' 1959 album Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs as where Billy the Kid "went to the bad."