Movies & TV

Archaeology in the Movies

Movies and Cinematic Explorations of Archaeology (at archaeology.about.com)

Anthropology on Film from the University of California-Santa Barbara

A List of Archaeology Films from Wasteflake.com

The Archaeology Channel

Movie Reviews

We are very interested in including reviews of movies, television shows, books and other popular media that are about archaeology, or feature archaeologists as main characters. Please let us know if you have other reviews to include on these pages!

Indiana Jones Trilogy (Review by Jay Fancher)

Out for a Kill (2003) (Synopsis/usanetwork.com, Review Comment/Susan Dixon Renoe)

Movie Suggestions

Archaeology Movie Suggestions by Susan Dixon Renoe

Archaeology Films (Wasteflake)

An extensive list of titles of movies whose summaries contain archeologist, archaeologist, archeology, or archaeology.

European Federation of Film Festivals on Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (FEDARCINE)

Archaeology Film Festivals (Program for Art on Film, Europe)

The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival, Eugene, Oregon

Television Show Suggestions

Star Trek: The Next Generation has several episodes that have story lines concerning artifacts that Captain Picard received from his professor during studies in exoarchaeology.  (See especially: Star Trek Next Generation: The Chase (Episode: 146)

Archaeology on Television

Weekly television listings featuring archaeology from the Archaeological Institute of America

Links to Archaeology as represented in newspapers and television stories from around the world from the University of Glasgow.

Press Release on the new Archaeology television show Extreme Archaeology

Time Team web site

 

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Posted by P.L. Jeppson 03/22/05