Nunavut: Our Land is a Canadian docudrama series, which aired in 1994 and 1995.Nancy Baele, "Video award winners make compelling series on Inuit culture". Ottawa Citizen, May 25, 1994. Created by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn through their Isuma studio to mark the 1993 passage of the Nunavut Act that authorized the creation of the territory of Nunavut,Claude Lalumiere, "Thinking About Isuma". Point of View, December 1, 2006. the 13-episode series featured short films of contemporary Inuit recreating historical scenes of Inuit culture and society.
The series was aired by Knowledge Network, TVOntario and TFO in the 1990s, but did not attract significant notice at the time.Odile Nelson, "Isuma series to run nationally starting July 9". Nunatsiaq News, July 4, 2003. It began to receive more widespread attention in the early 2000s following the breakout success of Kunuk's 2001 film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, including a screening in Germany as part of the Documenta11 art exhibition in 2002,Sarah Milroy, "Stories of the world". The Globe and Mail, June 24, 2002. and a full national rebroadcast in Canada by Bravo in 2003.
In 2004, the series was released on DVD by Vtape as part of Isuma's eight-disc Inuit Culture Kit box set,"Isuma launches publishing business". Nunatsiaq News, May 14, 2004. which was later replaced by the expanded Inuit Classic Collection set in 2007.Stéphanie Croteau, "QUAND LE CINÉMA AUTOCHTONE DEVIENT EXEMPLAIRE : DIVERSITÉ CULTURELLE ET PATRIMOINE CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUE SOUS LES VISIONS AUTHOCHTONES DE L’ONF". Imaginations, May 26, 2015.
In 2017, it was included in Canada On Screen, a special screening series of significant film and video works from throughout the history of Canadian cinema, which was staged by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark Canada 150.
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