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The StoryTarium is the newest attraction at the Kansas City Museum, where visitors can learn about local and regional history. The StoryTarium features films, lectures and other history-related programming in an intimate auditorium that seats 50 people. It is housed in the Museum’s former Planetarium.

Ours to Give: The Long Legacy of an American Family

The Long’s story is told through archival photos and film footage, through interviews with people who knew them, and in narration by noted actor Michael Gross.  Kansas City area locations include Longview Farm and the Longview Farm Elementary School in Lee’s Summit; Corinthian Hall; Liberty Memorial; and the R. A. Long Building downtown, currently occupied by UMB Financial Corp. Local personalities include Charles Gusewelle and Laura Rollins Hockaday of The Kansas City Star; and Mike Haverty, Chairman and CEO of Kansas City Southern Railway.

Stories Under the Stone
Written and hosted by C Gusewelle and featuring music by the Kemps, this video travels to gorgeous garden cemeteries like Bellefontaine and Calovary in St. Louis, Mt Mora in St. Joseph, and Elmwood Union in and Mt. Washington in Kansas City. Visit the Davis Memorial in Hiawatha, KS and other notable gravesites around the region, exploring an amazing array of history, artistry, imagery and symbolism resting within.

Bad Blood
BAD BLOOD: THE BORDER WAR THAT TRIGGERED THE CIVIL WAR tells the story of the border skirmishes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions on either side of the Missouri and Kansas border between 1854 and 1860. In the years leading up to the Civil War, a bloody conflict between Missourian slave-holders and Kansan abolitionists focused the nation's eyes on the Missouri-Kansas border, where history was unfolding on the Midwestern plains. This history is told through "interviews" with slave owners, abolitionists, politicians, settlers and border ruffians along with reenactments of key events.

Community Builder: The Life and Legacy of J.C. Nichols
This hour-long documentary chronicles J.C. Nichols' life and work, including Kansas City's own Country Club District, in which Nichols constructed the largest contiguous planned community in the United States. Now more than 100 year old, its crown jewel, the Country Club Plaza, has resisted encroachment by strip malls and fast food chains, and lived up to its founder's motto: "planning for permanence."

The Pony Express
The Pony Express was one of the most exciting and adventurous episodes in the history of the American West. Brave young riders carried the U.S. mail and the telegraph messages across the life-threatening, untamed wilderness of the Western frontier in fewer than ten days.

Uniquely Kansas City Part 1: The Art of the City
Making a city beautiful: A journey into Kansas City's architectural past, where visionaries and entrepreneurs build their way up from steep bluffs along the river to create a lasting legacy of parks and boulevards, fountains, sculpture and monuments of national renown.

Over Here! The Story of Kansas City & World War II
We know by heart the images of heroism, the memories echo in our souls. And while we prayed for the safety of our men and women over there, we were mobilizing for battle over here on the homefront. We wore civil defense helmets and grew victory gardens. We built bombers, gliders and LCTs. And we trained our boys at neaerby air fields and army camps. From the scrapbooks and memories of Kansas Citians who lived through it, this is the story of triumphs and tragedies, of miracles and milestones...this is the story of Over Here.

The Royal Years
Producer Jack Cashill captures an era of growth in Kansas City, from 1955 to 1985, a time when the interstates developed, Johnson County became a booming center of suburbia, and Ewing Kauffman established the Royals as the city's Major League baseball team. Also explored are the rise and fall of the River Quay, the tragedy of the 1977 Brush Creek flood, and development of the city's counterculture in the wake of the murder of Martin Luther King.

Uniquely Kansas City Part 2: A Great Town Rises
This installment looks back on such long-gone venues as the Gillis and Coates Opera Houses, and the Western Gallery of Art; at painters like George Caleb Bingham and John Douglas Patrick; and the city's contributions to the musical style known as ragtime.