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Masada (1981)
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Name: Masada
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Released: 1981-04-05
Rating: 7.8

5 APR 1981 • Action, Drama, History • 120 min

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Original name: Masada
Type: Miniseries
Created by: Joel Oliansky
Production: Arnon Milchan Productions, Universal Television
Networks: ABC

Country: US
Language: English
Schedule: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Sunday at 20:00

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.