(Masada)

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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Drama,

Action & Adventure

Networks:

ABC

Year:

1981

Directors:

Boris Sagal

Production companies:

Arnon Milchan Productions,

Universal Television

Actors:

General Cornelius Flavius Silva

Eleazar ben Yair

Sheva

Aaron

Miriam

Crews:

Producer

Director

Original Music Composer

Editor

Editor