Masada
Drama
Action & Adventure
April 5, 1981 – April 8, 1981
(began 45 years ago)
2h / episode
7.0/10
Ended
1 Season
4 Episodes
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 (45)
Directors
Writers
Producers
Cinematographers
Original Language
en
Spoken Languages
English, French
Production Countries
US
Production Companies
Arnon Milchan Productions, Universal Television