Masada (1981)
7.1(66)1 season · 4 episodes
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.
- Genre:
- Drama, Action & Adventure
- First air:
- 1981-04-05
- Last air:
- 1981-04-08
- Status:
- Ended
- Creator:
- Joel Oliansky
- Network:
- ABC
- Country:
- United States of America
