Skip to main content 'The Dig' is a movie about archaeology, but it's also a lovely meditation on what lasts Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post Jan. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3From top, Carey Mulligan, Archie Barnes and Ralph Fiennes in "The Dig."Larry Horricks/NetflixShow MoreShow Less 2of3Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan in "The Dig."Larry Horricks/NetflixShow MoreShow Less 3of3 On the eve of World War II, a self-taught English archaeologist, working at the behest of a Suffolk widow with a curiosity about what lay beneath several earthen mounds on her property, made what is considered to be one of the more significant discoveries in British archaeology.