12 seconds of gunfire is a 360º video experience produced by The Washington Post and directed by Washington Post design editor Suzette Moyer and senior developer Seth Blanchard, that tells the story of a first-grader’s journey of trauma and loss following a school shooting.

Accused #2: Walter Sisulu is a beautifully animated immersive video by Gilles Porte and Nicolas Champeaux based on the 256 hours of audio recordings of the Rivonia trial, where Walter Sisulu, Nelson Mandela and 6 other persons fought against apartheid.

Bloodless, directed by Gina Kim, poignantly retraces the true story of a camp town sex worker murdered by an American soldier in South Korea in 1992. Portraying the last hours of her life in the camp town, this 360° film transposes a historical and political issue into a personal and concrete experience.

Collisions by Lynette Wallworth is a groundbreaking 360° film. This Emmy-winning immersive video places audiences in the world of indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe of Australia. Morgan relays his first hand account of an atomic bomb test and the resulting collision between his Indigenous culture and the Western world. It’s a visceral and powerful exploration of the collision of two cultures and the threat to environmental conservation and sustainability.

Highrise: Out My Window is a National Film Board of Canada Emmy-winning web documentary by filmmaker Katerina Cizek that explores highrise living around the world. It is the oldest example of 360° video in our collection, with panoramic videos shot on a 360° Yellowbird video camera in 2010.

Notes on Blindness is an immersive award-winning film directed by Arnaud Colinart, Amaury La Burthe, Peter Middleton, and James Spinney, beautifully animated to an audio-diary that writer John Hull recorded over three years to document his experience slowly going blind. Using 360°, binaural audio and real time 3D animations, the film seeks to fully immerse the user in Hull’s interior vision of the world “beyond sight” and his increasing perception of “acoustic space.”

Step to the Line is a 360° documentary by Brazilian filmmaker Ricardo Laganaro that aims to provoke a shift in the viewer’s eyes about prisoners, the prison system, and themselves by showing the common humanity, differing realities, and racial biases experienced by the inmates and volunteers.

The Other Dakar is a dreamlike 360º film by Selly Raby Kane in which the viewer follows a girl in her journey through “The Other Dakar”, a place where artists hold the secret wonders of the city. Produced by South African nonprofit Electric South, this piece is also about breaking socio-geographical boundaries of 360º video production.

The Waiting Room VR is an unflinching portrait of the blood, sweat and tears of cancer treatment. It tells the story of Victoria Mapplebeck’s breast cancer (as patient and director) from diagnosis through treatment to recovery.

This Is Climate Change is a four-part series by Danfung Dennis and Eric Strauss that gives us a direct 360° look at how humans are affecting multiple ecosystems on our planet. This immersive and visceral experience brings the viewer to the frontlines of climate change.