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 ...

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 ...

It may seem unexciting to watch a movie about an archaeological dig that isn’t “Indiana Jones.” Yet, with the truly incredible names on the cast list for “The Dig” — Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, and ...

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 ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

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 ...

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 ...