Masada

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Release Date

4/5/1981

Runtime

4 eps, 383 mins

Genres

Drama Action & Adventure

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.

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Ended

Original Language

English

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An epic historical drama following Jewish defenders making an impossible stand against Roman legions, building toward a tragic and morally complex conclusion. The series unfolds with deliberate intensity, balancing political conflict and personal desperation as characters confront the weight of their choices.