Masada

7.019811 Season120mEnded

Drama

Action & Adventure

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.

StatusEnded

First Air Date1981-04-05

Last Air Date1981-04-08

Seasons1

Episodes4

Episode Runtime120 min

LanguagesEnglishFrançais

CountriesUnited States of America

Keywords

israel

based on novel or book

miniseries

ancient history

1st century

Videos

1 total

Teaser

MASADA

Seasons

Miniseries

4 Episodes · 1981

Cast & Crew

Peter O'Toole

as General Cornelius Flavius Silva

Peter Strauss

as Eleazar ben Yair

Barbara Carrera

as Sheva

Alan Feinstein

as Aaron

Giulia Pagano

as Miriam

Anthony Quayle

as Rubrius Gallus

Paul L. Smith

as Gideon

David Warner

as Senator Pomponius Falco

Clive Francis

as Attius, Head Tribune

David Opatoshu

as Shimon

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Mar 27, 2022

7/10

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…

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