Towns & cities
Ilulissat
town in Greenland
Greenland · 69.2167, -51.1000
Ilulissat is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in Ilulissat, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 2 more.
Movies filmed in Ilulissat
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Ilulissat as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list, each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
Named here by Ilulissat’s own Wikipedia article
Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Ilulissat, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.
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Borgen 2010–2022
“The fourth series of the Danish TV series Borgen (2022) plays partially in the city of Ilulissat and was filmed on location.” Wikipedia
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Ilulissat?
3 productions are recorded as filmed in Ilulissat, including Qivitoq (1956), The Last Airbender (2010) and Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Ilulissat?
Qivitoq (1956), covered by 17 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Ilulissat?
Ilulissat is in Greenland. Its coordinates are 69.2167, -51.1000.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Vincent van Zeijst, CC BY 3.0.