Masada

Release date : 1981-04-05

Production country :

United States of America

Production company :

Arnon Milchan Productions,

Universal Television

Network :

ABC

Status : Ended

Total Season : 1

Total episode : 4

Popularity : 1.932

7 Total Vote : 57

Drama

Action & Adventure

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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.