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Masada

1981 · 1 season, 4 episodes · 120m episodes · Action & Adventure, Drama · ABC · United States · Rated 13 (ES)

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.

Created by
Joel Oliansky
Based on the novel by
Ernest K. Gann
Starring
Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Alan Feinstein, Giulia Pagano, Anthony Quayle
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1st centuryancient historybased on novel or bookisraelminiseries
Rating13 (ES)

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