It stars Carey Mulligan as landowner Edith Pretty who asks local archaeologist Basil Brown, played by Ralph Fiennes, to investigate a series of mysterious earth mounds on her estate. The rather understated, beautifully-told and very British film about making the most of fleeting friendships and loves, packs an emotional punch and has topped viewing figures around the world. Many of the events and the characters depicted in both the film and the novel are inspired by real events and real people. The film is based on a novel of the same name written by John Preston. John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the greatest Anglo-Saxon discovery ever in Britain - brilliantly and comically dramatizes three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure.The Dig, which was released on Netflix at the end of January, explores the story of the excavation of the Great Ship Burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, in 1939. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Pretty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war.

'An enthralling story of love and loss' Robert Harris A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James.

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