The Dig Sutton Hoo Film / Goeyyrmtejvaym / The dig reimagines the events of the 1939 excavation of sutton hoo prior to the first world war.
The Dig Sutton Hoo Film / Goeyyrmtejvaym / The dig reimagines the events of the 1939 excavation of sutton hoo prior to the first world war. . Manager nick collinson said it was a really exciting opportunity. It's got everything a fan of british period films could ask for—gently verdant landscapes, gorgeous sweaters, and characters whose preferred means of … The netflix film is about the discovery in 1939 of a king's burial ship and stars carey mulligan and ralph fiennes. Netflix's the dig is a quietly lovely drama set in late 1930s england. The dig tells the story of the 1939 archaeological excavation at sutton hoo, but the movie takes a lot of creative license with the real events. The film, which is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by john preston, is now available to stream on netflix. The sutton hoo excavation, which forms the central focus of the new netflix film the dig, produced one of this country's most important archaeological finds.