Cross-media picks for Bruce Springsteen fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
If Western Stars and Springsteen on Broadway hit you somewhere deep, these picks are for you. Films and series about the grind of making music, loyalty to your roots, and what fame costs. Books tracing the dark American origins of rock and country. Games that put performance in your hands. All of it circles the same territory: music as vocation, obsession, and identity.
Film
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
A young musician on the edge of superstardom wrestles with success and the ghosts of his past.
Film
Western Stars
An intimate concert film where Springsteen performs his album and reflects on the American dream.
Film
Springsteen on Broadway
Personal stories and acoustic songs in a stripped-back, one-man Broadway show.
Film
The Ties That Bind: The Making of The River
Springsteen in his own words on the writing process behind his landmark double album.
Film
Song Sung Blue
Two down-on-their-luck musicians form a Neil Diamond tribute band and find joy again.
Film
Crossroads
A young guitarist's obsessive search for a long-lost Robert Johnson song.
Film
Rock & Rule
A villainous rock star kidnaps a singer to summon a demon; her bandmates must stop him.
Film
Body Rock
A New York breakdancer is lured away from his crew by a disco owner's money and status.
Series
Classic Albums
Album-by-album documentaries on the most distinctive records in pop and rock history.
Series
Vinyl
A jaded 1970s New York record exec tries to resurrect his failing label and fractured life.
Series
Boone
In 1950s Tennessee, a young man defies his father to pursue a career in rock and roll.
Series
Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll
An aging NYC rocker tries to revive his band and get his life back together.
Series
3rd Rock from the Sun
Aliens living as humans observe Earth's culture with deadpan bewilderment — sharp comic writing.
Series
Modern Farmer
A former pop group member struggles quietly with life seven years after the band's success ended.
Series
CMT Crossroads
Country stars and artists from other genres swap songs and stories about their shared musical loves.
Series
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest
The annual Times Square live music tradition ringing in the new year since 1972.
Game
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
Shred 80s rock tracks on a guitar controller — retro venues, unlockable guitars, classic songs.
Game
AC/DC LIVE: Rock Band
Perform AC/DC's catalogue live in a rock-band game built around the legendary group's music.
Game
The Beatles: Rock Band
Play through the Beatles' career from Liverpool to Abbey Road on drums, guitar, bass and vocals.
Game
MSM: The Lost Landscapes
A fan-made game built on genuine love for the My Singing Monsters franchise — small and charming.
Game
Rock Band 2
Master guitar, bass, drums and vocals across hundreds of tracks in the most ambitious music game.
Game
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
Follow Aerosmith's story while playing through their catalogue on guitar, bass and drums.
Game
No I'm not a Human
A world-ending scenario told through darkly poetic prose as the earth burns around you.
Game
Let's Sing Country
Sing along to country music's biggest hits in a performance game rooted in American roots music.
Book
Everybody needs a rock
A children's classic about finding the perfect rock — meditative, tactile, genuinely beloved.
Book
Rock and roll, 1955-1970
A history tracing rock's roots through rhythm and blues, solo stars, and supergroups to 1970.
Book
Slash
A guitarist's memoir redefining sex, drugs, and rock and roll from the inside — candid and raw.
Book
Country
A history of country music from blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys to rockabilly and beyond.
Book
Never stop singing
In 1964 Detroit, a ten-year-old singer takes on the challenge of leading her community.
Book
Thomas and Beulah
Parallel poems tracing two ordinary African Americans across decades of American life.
Book
Mexico City blues
Beat poems on music, life, religion, dreams and mortality — jazz-inflected and searching.
Book
Long Time Gone
A candid autobiography and cultural history of American pop music from the folk era to gold-age rock.
Start with Western Stars and Springsteen on Broadway — both are intimate, personal films. Then try Vinyl for a dramatic take on the music industry, or Crossroads for the mythology of the blues.
Yes — Long Time Gone is a candid rock autobiography spanning the folk era to gold-age rock; Slash is a raw guitarist's memoir; and Country digs into the dark American roots that feed rock's DNA.
Rock Band 2 and The Beatles: Rock Band let you play through rock history as a performer, while Guitar Hero: Aerosmith pairs gameplay with a band's real story — all built around the joy of live rock.