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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.
- Status
- Ended
- Type
- Miniseries
- Last aired
- 1981-04-08
- Language
- English
ABC
- israel
- based on novel or book
- miniseries
- ancient history
- 1st century
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Produced in
United States of America
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Air dates
- First aired
- 1981-04-05
- Latest episode
- 1981-04-08
- Status
- Ended
- Next release
- Completed
- Miniseries5 Apr 1981
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Audience reviews
1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
3/27/2022
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 of Peter O'Toole's ("Silva"). The other principal casting maybe isn't…
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