Local Programs

Time Warner Cable's Kansas City On Demand, Channel 113, now offers KCPT's programs.

Kansas City On Demand from Time Warner Cable provides an innovative, simple way for subscribers to watch many of KCPT's high quality programs at their convenience.

KCPT programs can be accessed through Channel 113. Simply click on the KCPT tab to access a selection of shows arranged by category including Weekly Shows, Arts, Our Town, Specials, and Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations.

Weekly Shows

Nick Haines

Kansas City Week in Review

Join moderator Nick Haines and this week's panel for a behind the scenes look at Kansas City's top news stories.

Ruckus

KCPT's weekly political free for all that looks at the news of the day and the trends of the times.

Arts

Uniquely Kansas City, A History of the Arts

This program, produced in HDTV (High Definition Television), reveals much of the beauty that is "Uniquely Kansas City."


Volume 1: The Art of The City
Volume 2: A Great Town Rises
Volume 3: The Golden Age

Volume 4: A New Vision

Volume 5: The Wealth of the Arts

Our Town

Over Here, The Story of Kansas City and World War II

This documentary taps the rich memories and early experiences of Kansas City Star columnist and narrator C.W. Gusewelle, and thirty-five others who've chosen Kansas City as their home.

Over KC

Over KC is an aerial tour that takes you above the downtown skyline and dozens of monuments, museums, trains, towers, stadiums and shopping centers across metropolitan Kansas City. The natural beauty of the surrounding counrtyside also plays an important part in this forty minute journey, featuring an original score by John Mistler.
This Place Called Home, with Charles Gusewelle

This documentary taps the rich memories and early experiences of Kansas City Star columnist and narrator C.W. Gusewelle, and thirty-five others who've chosen Kansas City as their home.

Specials

Ain't Seen Nothing Like It Since, The Story of the Kansas City Monarchs

The Kansas City Monarchs were the royalty of black baseball. Hall of Famers like Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson and Ernie Banks wore the Monarchs uniform. So did dozens of other remarkable athletes, men whose talent and achievements deserve to be remembered. As one who watched them once said, "You ain't seen nothin' like it since".

Follow Your Dreams: The Bessie Coleman Story

Sandra Campbell performs her one-woman show, "Follow Your Dreams," in front of a live audience at the Gem Theatre. The performance tells the life story of the first known black aviatrix, Bessie Coleman, from her birth in Texas, throughout her hardships, to her decision to leave America and travel to Paris in pursuit of her dreams of flight.

KC to Kanorado: An Uncommon View from I-70

Narrated by Kansas native Melissa Etheridge with musical accompaniment by local musicians, KC to Kanorado casts an uncommon view down a much-maligned stretch of highway—and encourages those, who next make the trek, to slow down and see the state anew.

Seasons of the Year, Seasons of the Heart, with Charles Gusewelle

Filmed at the American Heartland Theater in Septemer 2005. Charles Gusewelle reads from some of his Kansas City Star columns.

The sweetness of the northern summer ... a game played in autumn's changing light ... marriage sustained by Christmas cheer ... lovely faces in the doughnut line. Filmed before a live audience.

Stories Under the Stone

The grave is the most democratic of institutions—the destination to which we all are bound.

But the markers that adorn our burying grounds are far from equal. Small and simple, elegant and ostentatious, complex and quirky, these richly varied memorials inspire us to examine the stories under the stone.

Travel with writer C.W. Gusewelle in this hour-long KCPT documentary, and explore an amazing array of history, artistry, imagery and symbolism just waiting to be discovered in cemeteries across the Heartland. Written and Hosted by C.W. Gusewelle.

Water & Fire: A Story of the Ozarks

Water & Fire: A Story of the Ozarks is the culmination of the two year effort of writer Charles Gusewelle, producers Mike Murphy and Randy Mason, and videographer Dave Burkhardt. They traversed the Ozarks' valleys and streams. They studied the region and its people and captured the beauty of the land. The result is a vibrant tapestry - laced with the reflections of people who have lived its history.

Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations

Mike, Randy and Don Join Randy, Mike & Don the Camera Guy, as the minivan rolls on down the road less traveled. Now in its 11th season, KCPT's award-winning search for outsider art and offbeat attractions continues into the Southeast, with stops in Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. Learn more>