List of works about Billy the Kid

Comics

• Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine
• Billy the Kid
• Billy the Kid
• L'Escorte
• Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities
• The True Death of Billy the Kid

  Literature

• El asesino desinteresado Bill Harrigan, a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, part of the series A Universal History of Infamy.
• Billy The Kid, a serial poem by Jack Spicer
• El bandido adolescente, by Ramón J. Sender.
• , by Michael Ondaatje, 1970 biography in the form of experimental poetry
• The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid is a science fiction novel by Rebecca Ore
• Anything for Billy is a fictionalized account of Billy's last year by Larry McMurtry
• The Kid, a novel of Billy the Kid's life by Ron Hansen

  Film

• Billy the Kid, a 1911 silent film directed by Laurence Trimble and starring Tefft Johnson
• Billy the Kid, 1930 widescreen film directed by King Vidor and starring Johnny Mack Brown as Billy and Wallace Beery as Pat Garrett
• Billy the Kid Returns, 1938: Roy Rogers plays a dual role, Billy the Kid and his dead-ringer lookalike who shows up after the Kid has been shot by Pat Garrett.
• Billy the Kid, 1941 remake of the 1930 film, starring Robert Taylor and Brian Donlevy
• Bob Steele and Buster Crabbe portrayed Billy the Kid in a series of 42 western films from 1940 through 1947, released by Poverty Row studio Producers Distributing Corporation. Some of the titles include Blazing Frontier, The Renegade, Cattle Stampede, and Western Cyclone. In a 1952 film, Allan "Rocky" Lane goes after Billy the Kid's lost treasure.
• The Outlaw, Howard Hughes' 1943 motion picture starring Jack Buetel as Billy and featuring Jane Russell in her breakthrough role as the Kid's fictional love interest
• I Shot Billy the Kid, a 1950 film directed by William Berke and starring Don "Red" Barry as Billy
• The Kid from Texas starring Audie Murphy as Billy the Kid
• The Law vs. Billy the Kid starring Scott Brady as the Kid, James Griffith as Pat Garrett, Betta St. John as Nita Maxwell, and Alan Hale, Jr. as Bob Olinger
• The Left Handed Gun, Arthur Penn's 1958 motion picture based on a Gore Vidal teleplay, starring Paul Newman as Billy and John Dehner as Garrett
• The Boy from Oklahoma, with Tyler MacDuff in the role of Billy the Kid
• Billy the Kid Versus Dracula, directed by William Beaudine, has Count Dracula, played by John Carradine, traveling to the Old West, where he takes a shine to Billy's fiancée and tries to turn her into a vampire. Chuck Courtney co-stars as Billy.
• Chisum, set during the Lincoln County War, was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and stars Geoffrey Deuel as Billy and Glenn Corbett as Pat Garrett.
• Dirty Little Billy, set during Billy's early years as a criminal, starred Michael J. Pollard
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Sam Peckinpah's 1973 motion picture with Kris Kristofferson as Billy, James Coburn as Pat Garrett, and with a soundtrack by Bob Dylan, who also appears in the movie
• Young Guns, Christopher Cain's 1988 motion picture starring Emilio Estevez as Billy and Patrick Wayne as Pat Garrett
• Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid, Gore Vidal's 1989 television film starring Val Kilmer as Billy and Duncan Regehr as Pat Garrett
• Young Guns II, Geoff Murphy's 1990 motion picture starring Emilio Estevez as Billy and William Petersen as Pat Garrett
• Purgatory, Uli Edel's 1999 made-for-TV movie starring Donnie Wahlberg as Deputy Glen/Billy The Kid
• Requiem for Billy the Kid, Anne Feinsilber's 2006 motion picture starring Kris Kristofferson
• Birth of a Legend, a 2011 film in two parts based on Frederick Nolan's book The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History directed by Andrew Wilkinson
• The Kid, a 2019 film directed by Vincent D'Onofrio and starring Dane DeHaan as Billy the Kid.

  Music

• "Billy the Kid", a folksong in the public domain, was published in John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax's American Ballads and Folksongs album, and also their Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads album. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
• "Billy the Kid" folksong sung by Woody Guthrie, recorded by Alan Lomax in 1940 for the Library of Congress, with a melody Guthrie later used for his song "So Long, it's Been Good to Know You". He also recorded it in 1944 for Moe Asch's Asch/Folkways label.
• Bob Dylan's album Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, soundtrack of the 1973 film by Sam Peckinpah.
• "The Ballad of Billy the Kid", song sung by Billy Joel on the 1973 Piano Man album.
• Charlie Daniels recorded the song "Billy the Kid" on his 1976 album High Lonesome. Chris LeDoux also covered the song on his album Haywire.
• Joe Ely recorded the song "Me and Billy the Kid" on his 1987 album Lord of the Highway.
• Running Wild recorded the song "Billy the Kid" on their 1991 album Blazon Stone.
• Tom Petty wrote the song "Billy the Kid", released on his 1999 album Echo.
• Dia Frampton's "Billy the Kid," on the 2011 album Red.
• Jon Bon Jovi's album, Blaze of Glory, was used as part of the soundtrack for Young Guns II.
• Ry Cooder recorded the folk song "Billy the Kid", on the album Into The Purple Valley, with his own melody and instrumental. It was also on Ry Cooder Classics Volume II.
• Marty Robbins recorded the folk song "Billy the Kid" on his album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.

  Stage

• Billy the Kid, 1906 Broadway play co-written by Joseph Santley and Walwin Woods.
• Aaron Copland's Billy the Kid, music and ballet that premiered in 1938.
• Michael McClure's 1965 play The Beard recounts a fictional meeting between Billy the Kid and Jean Harlow.
• Michael Ondaatje's 1973 play, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid.

  Radio

• The first episode of the Gunsmoke radio series, broadcast on April 2, 1952 and titled "Billy the Kid", purports to tell of Billy's first murder as a runaway boy and credits Matt Dillon with giving him the "Billy the Kid" moniker.
• The CBS radio series Crime Classics told the story of Billy the Kid in its October 21, 1953 episode titled "Billy Bonney – Bloodletter". The episode featured Sam Edwards as Billy the Kid and William Conrad as Pat Garrett.

  Television

• Richard Jaeckel played The Kid in the 1954 episode "Billy the Kid" of the syndicated television series Stories of the Century.
• The NBC series The Tall Man ran from 1960 to 1962, starring Clu Gulager as Billy the Kid and Barry Sullivan as Pat Garrett.
• Robert Vaughn starred as Billy the Kid in a 1957 episode of the series Tales of Wells Fargo.
• Robert Blake starred as Billy the Kid in the 1966 Death Valley Days episode "The Kid from Hell's Kitchen". Tom Heaton also starred as Billy the Kid in season 16, episode "Lost Sheep in Trinidad".
• Robert Walker Jr. starred as Billy the Kid in the 1967 episode "Billy the Kid" of the Irwin Allen science fiction series The Time Tunnel.
• American Experience season 24 episode "Billy the Kid", aired on PBS January 9, 2012.
• Jor-el Vaasborg starred as Billy the Kid in the 2015 National Geographic TV documentary Billy the Kid: New Evidence, narrated by Kevin Costner

  Video games

• In the mobile game Fate/Grand Order, Billy the Kid is an Archer-class Servant who debuted as an ally in the 5th chapter of the main story.
• In Billy the Kid is one of the allies of the main character Silas Greaves and is rescued by him.