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Masada

Created by Joel Oliansky

1981

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.

First aired
5 Apr 1981
Episode length
96 min
Country
United States
Language
English
Writer
Joel Oliansky
Cinematography
Paul Lohmann
Music
Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens
Editors
Edwin F. England, Peter Kirby, Robert L. Kimble, Ron Rutberg
Executive producer
Jennings Lang
Producers
George Eckstein, Richard Irving
Elsewhere
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Seasons · 4 episodes

  • Miniseries

    Season 1 · 1981

    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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