In the months between May and September 1939, as Britain edged closer to the growing threat of war with Germany, the residents of Sussex, in the Southeast of England were captivated by the events of ...

Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan provide true-life drama “The Dig” with honesty and emotional heft it surely would not have had without them. They play middle-aged “excavator” Basil Brown and rich, ...

Just before the outbreak of World War II, a small-time archeologist was hired by a local woman to excavate her land. The thought was that it possibly contained some Viking remnants. But what was ...

In “The Dig,” Carey Mulligan was 34 when she played 55 year old Edith Pretty; she replaced Nicole Kidman who, at age 52, had to drop out less than 3 weeks before filming was scheduled to commence. In ...

Edith Pretty was convinced that the mounds on her land in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, held important archaeological secrets. In 1939, on the eve of the second world war, she was proven right as the sumptuous ...