TV Series

Masada

Name: Masada
Released: 1981-04-05
Rating: 7
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Alan Feinstein, Giulia Pagano

Apr 5, 1981 · 1 Season · 4 Episodes · 120m / ep · Drama, Action & Adventure

⭐ 7.0/ 10

Created by Joel Oliansky

Status: Ended

Overview

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.