See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In 1939, when the majority of The Dig is set, Pretty was 56, five years ...

As an anxious nation anticipates the start of the Second World War, the widowed Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) hires an itinerant archaeologist, Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes), to dig up the mounds on her ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rob Salkowitz is an Eisner-nominated comics journalist and author. Knowing that war would disrupt the exploration, archeologists ...

The Dig has plowed through Netflix viewers this weekend, and everybody’s talking about it. This British drama reimagines and adds spirit to the seemingly dull 1939 excavation of an ancient ship burial ...

Robert Preston’s 2007 historical novel The Dig was inspired by a little-known but historically significant British event: on the eve of World War II, in 1939 Suffolk, a self-taught yet ...

Jeff Sneider is the Senior Film Reporter at Collider, where he breaks film and television news and curates the Up-and-Comer of the Month column in addition to hosting The Sneider Cut podcast and the ...

I hereby declare Netflix’s The Dig to be a significant contender for The Year’s Most British Movie. It’s a WWII-period BOATS (Based On A True Story) film featuring some, if not all, of the following ...

Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes head the cast of 'The Dig,' Simon Stone's period drama about the excavation of an ancient burial site on an English estate as World War II looms, also featuring Lily ...