Masada 1981
Created by Joel Oliansky
- Drama, Action & Adventure
- 120 min episodes
- 1 season
- 4 episodes
- Ended
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.
DramaAction & Adventureisraelbased on novel or bookminiseriesancient history1st centuryABC
- Suicide or self-harm
- Bleak ending
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and epic.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Peter O'TooleGeneral Cornelius Flavius Silva
- Peter StraussEleazar ben Yair
- Barbara CarreraSheva
- Alan FeinsteinAaron
- Giulia PaganoMiriam
- Anthony QuayleRubrius Gallus
- Paul L. SmithGideon
- David WarnerSenator Pomponius Falco
- Clive FrancisAttius, Head Tribune
- David OpatoshuShimon
Crew
- Joel OlianskyCreator
- Boris SagalDirector
- Ernest K. GannNovel
- Paul LohmannDirector of Photography
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Morton StevensOriginal Music Composer
- Ron RutbergEditor
- Robert L. KimbleEditor
- George EcksteinProducer
- Richard IrvingProducer
Seasons
- Miniseries4 eps · 1981
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