GB
2021
1hr 42mins
Dir: Simon Stone
Starring: Ralph fiennes and Lily James
An archaeologist and his team discover a wooden ship from the Dark Ages while digging up a burial ground on a woman’s estate
This drama based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston, reimagines the events of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, now recognised as one of the most significant Anglo-Saxon archaeological sites in England. The film has a scene filmed on the preserved Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway, with Chinnor station standing in for Woodbridge in Suffolk.