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Masada

Starring: Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Alan Feinstein, Giulia Pagano

Writer: George Eckstein, Ernest K. Gann, Joel Oliansky

Release Date:
April 5, 1981
Ratings:
7.0 / 10
Creator:
Joel Oliansky
Networks:

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.