Masada (1981)
| First Air Date: | 1981, April 5 |
| Last Air Date: | 1981, April 8 |
| Status: | Ended |
| Seasons: | 1 |
| Episodes: | 4 |
| Episode Runtime: | 120 min |
Overview:
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.