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The 86ft Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, was unearthed in 1939. More than 260 items were discovered, including weapons, armour, coins, jewellery, gold buckles, patterned plaques and silver cutlery. New Netflix film The Dig, starring Lily James, Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, dramatises the find and delves into the lives of those involved in the excavation. Archaeologists Basil Brown, Peggy and Stuart Piggott and Charles Philips, as well as landowner Edith Pretty and her 12-year-old son Robert are all portrayed in the film. The new release has received positive reviews from ...

The Queen's Gambit—and the streamer's newest addition to the genre is no different. The Dig, a drama film released Jan. 29, is set in the English countryside during World War II, and tells the true story of the groundbreaking (pun very much intended) archeological dig that would come to be known as Sutton Hoo. During the excavation, led by Basil Brown (played in the film by Ralph Fiennes), archeologists discovered multiple Anglo-Saxon burial sites dating back to the sixth and seventh centuries, including a remarkably well-preserved and undisturbed ship burial containing hundreds of artifac...

Who knows of any good movies about archaeology? And don’t say the Indiana Jones series. He never gets anything back to Marcus Brody’s museum. The Ark of the Covenant ends up in a cavernous government

Ivan remembers the excitement: "They were finding a lot of things there - and I remember when the experts came in and took things over. "I thought the film was very good generally - it wasn't all completely as it was. I remember Mrs Pretty as being much older than she was in the film (Carey Mulligan who plays her is 35 and Mrs Pretty was 56 at the time of the discovery). Ivan Jacobs enjoyed the film The Dig, but felt Carey Mulligan was much younger than the real Mrs Pretty - and remembered the incident in the film when Basil Brown, played by Ralph Fiennes, was buried alive in a landslip.

Ivan remembers the excitement: "They were finding a lot of things there - and I remember when the experts came in and took things over. "I thought the film was very good generally - it wasn't all completely as it was. I remember Mrs Pretty as being much older than she was in the film (Carey Mulligan who plays her is 35 and Mrs Pretty was 56 at the time of the discovery). Ivan Jacobs enjoyed the film The Dig, but felt Carey Mulligan was much younger than the real Mrs Pretty - and remembered the incident in the film when Basil Brown, played by Ralph Fiennes, was buried alive in a landslip.