Masada
Created by Joel Oliansky
On ABC
A grave historical miniseries about a doomed siege that culminates in mass suicide, treating an ancient tragedy with existential weight and spiritual urgency.
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.
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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
