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'The Dig' Review: Why the Treasure Hunt Drama Should Be on Your Watch List Netflix welcomed "The Dig" on its catalog of films, and it quickly became a big hit among fans and critics. The Simon Stone-directed film is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston. It tells the story of a group of excavators and what happened to them during the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo. The treasure hunt drama features Carey Mulligan (Edith Pretty), Ralph Fiennes (Basil Brown), Lily James (Peggy Piggott), Johnny Flynn (Rory Lomax), Ben Chaplin (Stuart Piggott), Ken Stott (Charles Phillips), Archi...

'The Dig' on Netlfix: The Big Changes Made to the True Story of Sutton Hoo On 2/1/21 at 7:41 AM EST The Dig is the latest movie released by Netflix, which is a dramatic retelling of the Sutton Hoo archeological discovery of the late 1930s, which saw amateur archeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) discover an ancient burial mound full of amazing Anglo-Saxon artifacts. Real archaeology (as opposed to the whip-cracking, globe-trotting type dreamed up by the Indiana Jones movies) is a slow and laborious process, and as such seems an unlikely topic for a starry movie. However, Netflix has decide...

READ MORE Is The Dig a true story? According to the National Trust, who runs the site now as a tourist attraction, The Dig is based on a novel written by John Preston. While the film is based on the novel, many of the events and characters depicted in both the film and the novel are inspired by real events and real people. One of these is Edith Pretty who owned the Sutton Hoo estate and was the instigator of the first excavations, which ended up revealing some incredible medieval finds. In July 1937, Edith wrote to local historians who eventually put her in touch with Ipswich Museum, which in...

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. The True Story Behind Netflix's 'The Dig' How a medium helped to find buried Anglo-Saxon treasure, plus all the other stuff the film doesn't tell you Larry Horricks/Netflix A thoughtful reconstruction of an archaeological dig somewhere in deepest Suffolk feels like quite unlikely material for one of the first big Netflix hits of 2021, but The Dig has turned out to be exactly that. Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James and Johnny Flynn feature in the film based on John Preston's 2007 novel, also called T...

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 ...