Dig, The

[Netflix Only] Simon Stone's compelling, factually based, critically acclaimed, well-acted, visually stunning, multilayered, 112-minute film based on John Preston's 2007 historical novel in which tenacious, self-taught, amateur archeologist, and Ipswich Museum curator Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes), along with a newbie archaeologist couple (Lily James and Ben Chaplin) and a photographer (Jonny Flynn), excavates on the private property of seriously ill widow Edith Pretty (Cary Mulligan), who has a young son (Archie Barnes), Sutton Hoo treasures and artifacts on a 90-foot Anglo-Saxon rowing ship, which were gifted to the British Museum, and two medieval cemeteries in 1939 in Suffolk, England, dating from the 6th to 7th centuries.
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