Masada

• TV Show
• 1981-04-05
• EN
• Ended
• 2h 37m
• Drama - Action & Adventure

• 7.0
• 57
• Trailer

Production

Arnon Milchan Productions, Universal Television

Storyline

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.