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Masada
7 / 10 (60 votes)
[Drama, Action & Adventure]
Apr 1981 - Apr 1981 (Ended)
- 1 season 4 episodes
Languages: English, French(Français)
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.

Cast

General Cornelius Flavius Silva
Eleazar ben Yair
Miriam
Rubrius Gallus
Gideon
Senator Pomponius Falco
Attius, Head Tribune
Ephraim
Jerahmeel, Head Essene
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