Masada
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.
MasadaSeries
Details
- First aired
- 5 Apr 1981
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 4
- TMDB 7.1
- Last aired
- 8 Apr 1981
- Genres
Drama Action & Adventure
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- ABC
- Episode runtime
- 2 h
- Countries
US
- Original language
- en
- Original title
- Masada
- Creators
- Cast
- Writers
Joel Oliansky - Composer
Morton Stevens Jerry Goldsmith
