Masada

Plot summary

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.

Seasons

Crew

• personJoel OlianskyCreator · Writer
• Boris SagalDirector
• personErnest K. GannWriter
• personGeorge EcksteinProducer
• Richard IrvingProducer
• personJennings LangExecutive producer
• Jerry GoldsmithMusic
• personMorton StevensMusic

Cast

Production companies

• movieArnon Milchan Productions
• Universal Television