Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
With The Beatles, released in late 1963, followed the debut just eight months in — George Martin producing, the cover shot by Robert Freeman, the tracklist split between band originals and borrowed material. The resulting tension between absorption and invention threads through everything here: stories of artists at a threshold, bands whose chemistry defined an era, and the creative friction that turns raw ambition into something that lasts.
With the Beatles is the second studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released in the United Kingdom on 22 November 1963 on Parlophone, eight months after the release of the band's debut album, Please Please Me. Produced by George Martin, the album features eight original compositions and six covers. The sessions also yielded the non-album single, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" backed by "This Boy". The cover photograph was taken by the fashion photographer Robert Freeman and has since been mimicked by several music groups. A different cover was used for the Australian release of the album, which the Beatles were displeased with.
From the Wikipedia article With_the_Beatles, available under CC BY-SA.
Film
Beatles '64
Unseen footage of the New York landing captures the exact moment audience frenzy became cultural phenomenon.
Film
Backbeat
Set in Hamburg, it traces the band's formative bonds — and fractures — before fame reshaped everything.
Film
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
A band chasing success loses sight of where they came from — the oldest tension in rock mythology.
Film
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles turn a coach tour into surreal fantasy, pure playful strangeness in motion.
Film
Yesterday
What if the songs vanished — one man alone remembering a world everyone else forgot.
Film
Let It Be
Series
The Beatles Anthology
A career-spanning documentary series tracing the full arc of the band's story.
Series
The Beatles
Animated misadventures played the band's music era into fanciful, comedic form across four years.
Series
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Looks past the famous quartet to find the singular person behind the most recognisable role.
Series
The Beatles: Get Back
Sixty hours of unseen footage reveal the warmth and creative friction inside the rehearsal room.
Series
Classic Albums
Each episode dissects one landmark album, exploring what made it distinct in its moment.
Book
Ringo Starr
Ringo's Liverpool origins ground the mythology in a specific, gritty, working-class place.
Book
Lennon
A close friend draws on personal knowledge to trace Lennon's life, career, and lasting influence.
Book
A hard day's write
Chronological investigation into the real people and events that quietly inspired the songs.
Book
Here, There and Everywhere
An Abbey Road engineer present at the first sessions recounts the making of the recordings firsthand.
Book
Without You
George Harrison admired their creativity — then watched bad luck and business decisions destroy the band.
Book
Long Time Gone
A candid autobiography spanning folk to rock, both cautionary tale and insider cultural history.
The Beatles: Get Back is the ideal next stop — compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage, it captures the band's warmth and creative process up close, offering a deeply intimate companion to the early-era sound you love.
Here, There and Everywhere is a great pick — written by Abbey Road engineer Geoff Emerick, who was present from the very first sessions, it takes you inside the studio where those recordings were made.
Yesterday imagines a world where The Beatles were forgotten and one musician holds all their songs — a fun, heartfelt way to rediscover just how extraordinary that early catalogue really is.