Masada(1981)
DramaAction & Adventure
First Air Date: 1981-04-05
Average Runtime: 2h 0m
Rating: 7.0
Votes: 62
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 4
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.
Keywords
israelbased on novel or bookminiseriesancient history1st century
Seasons & Episodes
Miniseries
Episodes: 4E01
Part I
Air Date: 1981-04-05
Negotiations between Roman leader General Cornelius Flavius and Jewish rebel leader Elezar ben Yair leads to the inev...
E02
Part II
Air Date: 1981-04-06
The Jewish rebels, safe and watered atop their mountain stronghold of Masada, goad the sun-tortured Roman army below....
E03
Part III
Air Date: 1981-04-07
Tables turn for the Romans, constructing the weapon to reach Masada and, now led by brutal Roman upstart Falco, who h...
E04
Part IV
Air Date: 1981-04-08
The Romans utilize their formidable weapon to reach the top of Masada, and the final battle is underway.
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