Cross-media picks for David Bowie fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
Fans of David Bowie tend to reach for work that takes music seriously as a force — documenting creative courage, capturing live performance at its peak, or tracing how rock reshapes the people and societies around it. The picks here cover all of that: films and documentaries close to Bowie's own story, series and games that put you inside the music, and books that treat rock as both art and social history. If it moves you the way Heroes does, it's here.
Film
Stardust
In 1971, Bowie tours America and creates his iconic Ziggy Stardust persona — the moment it all began.
Film
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
The final Ziggy Stardust concert filmed live: flamboyant excess, kitsch, and pop irony in full bloom.
Film
Bowie: The Final Act
Rare interviews reveal the final creative chapter of an artist who kept working until the very end.
Film
Leto
Leningrad youth smuggle Bowie and Lou Reed LPs into an underground rock scene on the cusp of perestroika.
Film
Moonage Daydream
A cinematic odyssey built from never-before-seen footage exploring Bowie's creative and musical journey.
Film
David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Bowie ended nearly a decade of silence with two groundbreaking albums and a stage musical — his final flourish.
Film
Body Rock
A disco owner lures a New York breakdancer away from his friends — music, ambition, and divided loyalties.
Film
Song Sung Blue
Two down-on-their-luck musicians form a Neil Diamond tribute band — and find love along the way.
Series
Classic Albums
Deep-dives into the albums that defined rock eras — ideal for anyone who hears music as cultural landmark.
Series
takt op.Destiny
Music is suddenly taken from the world; grotesque monsters emerge — music as life force, made literal.
Series
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
George Harrison was far more than a Beatle — inner depth behind global stardom, spirituality and rock combined.
Series
One Strange Rock
Astronauts explore the fragility and wonder of Earth — a mind-bending perspective on the world we inhabit.
Series
Vinyl
A jaded record exec tries to resurrect his label in 1970s New York — creative hunger and personal wreckage.
Series
Catwalk
Six twenty-somethings form a pop band named Catwalk — youth, ambition, and the messy business of becoming an act.
Series
Mars
A rebellious racer and a quiet artist cross paths, helping each other heal from past wounds.
Series
Behind the Music
Intimate access to pop music's most influential artists — the private lives behind the public mythology.
Game
The Beatles: Rock Band
Follow the Beatles from Liverpool to Abbey Road — rock history as interactive, joyful performance.
Game
Rock Band 2
Master lead guitar, bass, drums and vocals — the most polished and ambitious entry in the Rock Band series.
Game
AC/DC LIVE: Rock Band
Live out your rock fantasy with AC/DC's catalogue — high-voltage theatrical energy in a music game.
Game
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
Shred through 80s rock tracks with a guitar controller — retro venues, unlockable guitars, decade flamboyance.
Game
Rock Band
Create your own band and chase worldwide rock stardom — fame, fortune and performance made interactive.
Game
Rock Band 3
The most ambitious entry in the series — a world tour chasing fame, fortune and rock stardom.
Game
Mushroom 11
Mold an amorphous organism through a bizarre mutated world — strange beauty and brain-twisting obstacles.
Game
Guitar Hero
Thirty rock anthems, one guitar controller — the raw sensation of being a rock star, distilled to its essence.
Book
Bowie
An appreciation of what made Bowie a cultural icon — the wavelength millions tuned into and why it still resonates.
Book
Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung
Essays on Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and the Clash — rock criticism as an art form in its own right.
Book
Bowie's Bookshelf
The 100 books Bowie said changed his life — a window into the literary imagination behind the music.
Book
Everybody needs a rock
Rules for finding the perfect rock — quiet, specific joy in the simple and tactile.
Book
To the Limit
Profiles the Eagles — how the band started, their musical style, and the relationships between members.
Book
Rock and roll, 1955-1970
Rock's roots, rhythm and blues, solo stars and supergroups charted from 1955 to 1970.
Book
Rock and roll
Rock and roll as social history — how the music moved through society and why it still matters.
Book
Slash
Slash's own memoir: sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll from one of the genre's greatest guitarists.
Start with Moonage Daydream, a cinematic documentary built from never-before-seen footage of Bowie's creative journey, then pair it with Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars to see that era's final live performance captured on film.
Bowie's Bookshelf is the obvious starting point — it explores the 100 books Bowie said changed his life, making it a window into his literary imagination. Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung offers brilliant rock criticism covering Bowie alongside Lou Reed and Iggy Pop.
The Rock Band series lets you inhabit the performance — instruments, vocals, the full-band fantasy — which suits fans who love music as spectacle. Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s channels the decade's theatrical excess across 30 tracks.