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05/04/1981 Drama, Action & Adventure 2h 0m
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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.

Top billed cast

  1. Peter O'Toole

    General Cornelius Flavius Silva

  2. Peter Strauss

    Eleazar ben Yair

  3. Barbara Carrera

    Sheva

  4. Alan Feinstein

    Aaron

  5. Giulia Pagano

    Miriam

  6. Anthony Quayle

    Rubrius Gallus

  7. Paul L. Smith

    Gideon

  8. David Warner

    Senator Pomponius Falco

  9. Clive Francis

    Attius, Head Tribune

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Current Season

Season 1

 1981 | 4 Episodes

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.

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-03-27
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 the best - Peter Strauss didn't work for me at all and the seriously wooden Barbara Carrera also stretches the imagination just a tad, but the pace of the story builds well as the...read the rest
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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
Masada

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