Cross-media picks for U2 fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks are for fans of U2 who want to follow the thread — music as mission, the cost of belief, and the gap between the dream and the reality. You'll find the band's own story in U2 by U2 and Killing Bono, the mechanics of rock mythology unpacked in Classic Albums and Behind the Music, and a string of films, games, and books where music shapes identity and characters reckon with what they've risked. Each pick rewards the same appetite for something that matters.
Film
Bono: Stories of Surrender
Bono pulls back the curtain on his life as son, father, activist, and frontman through words, music, and mischief.
Film
Killing Bono
Two Irish brothers watch their high-school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world — funny and painfully bittersweet.
Film
Body Rock
A disco owner lures a New York breakdancer away from his friends in a story built around music and street culture.
Film
Pink Floyd: The Wall
A troubled rock star descends into madness amid physical and social isolation, rendered with hallucinatory visual force.
Film
Leto
Early-80s Leningrad: smuggled Lou Reed and Bowie LPs fuel an underground rock scene on the edge of Perestroika.
Film
Nowhere
Bohemian LA outsiders converge on the wildest party of the year in a vivid, sexually fluid comedy-drama.
Film
Eden
Disillusioned outsiders retreat to a remote uninhabited island — and find the greatest threat is each other.
Film
Rock & Rule
A malevolent rock star kidnaps a singer to complete a demon-summoning ritual; her band must stop him.
Series
Classic Albums
Documentary series examining the albums that defined rock and pop history, told by the musicians who made them.
Series
And Then There Were None
Ten strangers stranded on a Devon island find themselves hunted one by one in this Agatha Christie adaptation.
Series
This Is Pop
Pop's hidden histories told by the hitmakers themselves, from ABBA to T-Pain.
Series
MTV Unplugged
Top artists strip their songs to acoustic essentials, revealing the emotion underneath the production.
Series
Another Life
After an alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to find its source.
Series
Behind the Music
An intimate look at the personal lives and turning points behind pop music's most influential artists.
Series
Music Up!
Four teenage boys share a passion for music, clashing personalities and dreams against everyday difficulties.
Series
Paradox Live THE ANIMATION
Rival artists wield Phantom Metal accessories that react to emotion in a visually charged hip-hop battle drama.
Game
Mushroom 11
Prune an amorphous organism to grow it through a strange post-apocalyptic world full of brain-twisting obstacles.
Game
Circa Infinity
A circular platformer with a pulse-pounding soundtrack that makes the gameplay feel inseparable from the music.
Game
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
Grab a guitar controller and shred through retro rock tracks in this PS2-era 80s nostalgia classic.
Game
AC/DC LIVE: Rock Band
Live out a rock fantasy playing along to AC/DC's tracks in this music game built around the band's catalogue.
Game
The Beatles: Rock Band
Follow the Beatles from Liverpool to Shea Stadium, playing drums, guitar, and bass through their legendary career.
Game
No I'm not a Human
A scorched-earth apocalypse: blackened streets, acrid air, and the sun itself turned lethal.
Game
Mixtape (2025)
Three friends spend their last high-school night on one more adventure, set to a generation-defining mixtape.
Game
Friday night funkin: whitty mod (lo-fight) with music
A fan-made Friday Night Funkin mod built for the community by the community.
Book
U2 by U2
Four Dublin teenagers who could barely play form a band — then conquer the world; told entirely by U2 themselves.
Book
U2 at the end of the world
Four years across four continents with U2, including conversations with Bill Clinton and Mick Jagger.
Book
To the Limit
Profiles the Eagles — how the band started, their musical style, and the relationships between its members.
Book
Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung
Essays on Bowie, Lou Reed, the Clash, and more — ferociously opinionated rock criticism that still holds up.
Book
Without You
Badfinger's story: creativity and George Harrison's belief, undone by bad luck, bad business, and depression.
Book
Oblivion Song
Nathan Cole must hold two worlds together as everything collapses around him in this sci-fi graphic novel.
Book
Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose
Chronicles Black Sabbath's rise as the quintessential heavy metal band — essential rock mythology.
Book
Everybody needs a rock
A children's classic about finding the perfect rock for play and pleasure — simple, joyful, and surprisingly wise.
Start with Bono: Stories of Surrender for an intimate portrait of the frontman himself, then try Killing Bono for a comic-dramatic look at U2's rise through the eyes of the Dublin brothers who almost kept up with them.
U2 by U2 is the inside account told by the band; U2 at the End of the World follows them across four continents over four years. For broader rock history, Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung collects opinionated essays on Bowie, Lou Reed, the Clash, and more.
The Beatles: Rock Band lets you play through a legendary career from Liverpool to Shea Stadium, while Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s covers the era on a guitar controller. Mixtape (2025) offers a narrative take — a last-night-of-high-school adventure scored by a generation-defining soundtrack.