Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~120 min/episode
- Length
- 1 season · 4 episodes
- Status
- Miniseries
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
The story
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.
- israel
- based on novel or book
- miniseries
- ancient history
- 1st century
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Giulia Pagano
- Anthony Quayle
- Paul L. Smith
- David Warner
- Clive Francis
- David Opatoshu
- Richard Pierson
- Joseph Wiseman
- David A. Block
- Vernon Dobtcheff
- David Mauro
- Directed
- Boris Sagal
- Created
- Joel Oliansky
- Written
- Joel Oliansky
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 63 ratings
- Network & studio
- ABC, Arnon Milchan Productions, Universal Television
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
