Plot
Masada is a 1981 American historical drama television miniseries aired on ABC under the tentpole ABC Novel for Television. The screenplay by Joel Oliansky is based on Ernest Gann's 1971 novel The Antagonists. A dramatization of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Roman Palestine by legions of the Roman Empire in AD 73. A siege that ended when the Roman armies entered the fortress, only to discover the mass suicide by the Jewish defenders when defeat became imminent.
Cast
as General Cornelius Flavius Silva
as Eleazar ben Yair
as Sheva
as Aaron
as Miriam
as Rubrius Gallus
as Gideon
as Senator Pomponius Falco
as Attius, Head Tribune
as Shimon
Creator
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
April 5, 1981
Last Aired Date
April 8, 1981
Production Companies
Arnon Milchan Productions
Universal Television
Type
Miniseries
Number of Season
1
Number of Episodes
4
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Reviews
I remember watching this mini-series on the BBC and throughly enjoying every minute (I was 14!). It marries historical fact, legend and drama creating a cracking action adventure that sees nine hundred Jewish people take refuge in the eponymous and impregnable mountain fortress, fleeing the brutal regime of the Vespasianic legions under the command of Peter O'Toole's ("Silva"). The other principa…
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Miniseries
1981|4 Episodes
A dramatization of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Roman Palestine by legions of the Roman Empire in AD 73. A siege that ended when the Roman armies entered the fortress, only to discover the mass suicide by the Jewish defenders when defeat became imminent.
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