Masada 1981
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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.
Cast
R
Richard Pierson
Ephraim
D
David A. Block
Reuben
A
Alexander Peleg
Zidon
Crew
- Creator
- Joel Oliansky
- Director
- Boris Sagal
- Writers
- Joel Oliansky, Ernest K. Gann
- Producers
- George Eckstein, Richard Irving
- Executive Producers
- Jennings Lang
- Cinematography
- Paul Lohmann
- Editing
- Ron Rutberg, Robert L. Kimble, Peter Kirby, Edwin F. England
- Composer
- Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens
- Production Design
- Jack Senter
- Costume Design
- Vittorio Nino Novarese
Details
- First air date
- Apr 5, 1981
- Last air date
- Apr 8, 1981
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 4
- Episode runtime
- 120 min
- Network
- ABC
- Status
- Ended
- Studios
- Arnon Milchan Productions, Universal Television
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English, French
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