Masada

1981 1 Season 4 Episodes ★ 7.0 Drama, Action & Adventure

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

Peter O'Toole

General Cornelius Flavius Silva

Peter Strauss

Eleazar ben Yair

Barbara Carrera

Sheva

Alan Feinstein

Aaron

Giulia Pagano

Miriam

Anthony Quayle

Rubrius Gallus

Paul L. Smith

Gideon

David Warner

Senator Pomponius Falco

Clive Francis

Attius, Head Tribune

David Opatoshu

Shimon

Seasons

Details

Status

Ended

Original Language

EN

Network

ABC

Created By

Joel Oliansky

Production

Arnon Milchan Productions, Universal Television

Reviews

C

CinemaSerf

March 27, 2022

★ 7/10

I remember watching this mini-series on the BBC and throughly enjoying every minute (I was 14!). It marries historical fact, legend and drama creating a cracking action adventure that sees nine hundred Jewish people take refuge in the eponymous and impregnable mountain fortress, fleeing the brutal regime of the Vespasianic legions under the command of Peter O'Toole's ("Silva"). The other principal...