1981-04-05 7.008/10
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.
Director : Boris Sagal
Writer :
Cast
Peter O'Toole
Peter Strauss
Barbara Carrera
Alan Feinstein
Giulia Pagano
Anthony Quayle
Seasons List
Miniseries
A dramatization of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Roman Palestine by legions of the R...
