Films and Other Media
- The 1986 film Crossroads is about a young white blues guitarist's search for Johnson's "missing" 30th song and the theme of blues artists selling their souls to the devil.
- Stones in My Passway: The Robert Johnson Story (1990), a biographical film by Martin Spottl.
- The Search for Robert Johnson (1991), UK documentary hosted by Blues musician John P. Hammond, son of John H. Hammond.
- Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life and Music of Robert Johnson (1997)
- Hellhounds On My Trail: The Afterlife of Robert Johnson (2000, directed by Robert Mugge)
- Eric Clapton – Sessions for Robert Johnson (2004, documentary)
- Me and the Devil Blues: The Unreal Life of Robert Johnson (published in 2008) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Hiramoto. It is a phantasmagoric reimagining of Johnson's life.
- Celebration of the music and legend of Robert Johnson: Show 502 WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour. Rory Block and Scott Ainslie discuss Johnson and play his music. Taped 2008-09-29; 60 minutes audio (WMA, MP3), 88 minutes video (WMV).
- To commemorate Johnson's 100th birthday, Dogfish Head Brewery released "Hellhound on My Ale", a limited edition beer, in collaboration with Sony's Legacy Recordings division.
- Crossroads by Radio Lab the myth of what happened to Robert Johnson at the crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
- In the show Supernatural, Robert Johnson appears in a flashback in the episode Crossroad Blues.
- Author Robert Rankin has referenced Johnson in his works The Brightonomicon and The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code.
- Sherman Alexie's novel Reservation Blues includes Johnson visiting the crossroads on the Spokane Indian Reservation and leaving his enchanted guitar behind.
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