Masada

1981 120m

7.0 / 10 62

RATING

7.0/10

YOUR RATING

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.

Creators

Joel Oliansky

Stars

Peter O'Toole Peter Strauss Barbara Carrera

Seasons

Peter O'Toole

General Cornelius Flavius Silva

Senator Pomponius Falco

Jerahmeel, Head Essene

General Marcus Quadratus

Anthony Valentine

Merovius, Head Tribune

Modern-Day Narrator (voice, uncredited)

William Morgan Sheppard

Moabite Prostitute (uncredited)

62 User reviews

Peter O'Toole

General Cornelius Flavius Silva

Senator Pomponius Falco

Jerahmeel, Head Essene

General Marcus Quadratus

Anthony Valentine

Merovius, Head Tribune

Modern-Day Narrator (voice, uncredited)

William Morgan Sheppard

Moabite Prostitute (uncredited)

User Reviews 1

Geronimo1967 27 Mar 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...