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A Balasaur Score of 76 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.8/10. The series ran 1 season across 4 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
65 audience votes
Seasons
| 1 | Miniseries | 4 ep1981 |
Key crew
- Boris SagalDirector
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Morton StevensOriginal Music Composer
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
- Richard PiersonEphraim
- Joseph WisemanJerahmeel, Head Essene
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Themes
israelbased on novel or bookminiseriesancient history1st century