Masada "Retribution"

Peter O'Toole and Peter Strauss star in the Emmy Award-winning mini-series about the Romans' siege of the Jewish fortress at Masada.

In first century A.D., Flavius Silva (Peter O'Toole), commander in Roman Palestine, leads his forces in combat against the remaining Jewish Zealots who have taken refuge in the seemingly impregnable fortress of Masada. There, the engineering and military might of Rome faces the passion and ingenuity of Eleazar Ben Yair (Peter Strauss) and his people.

Based on the novel "The Antagonists" by Ernest K. Gann, this 4-part mini-series was shot on location in Israel.

This six-hour epic is now available for the first time ever on DVD.

Product Details: http://www.kochvision.com/product.aspx?number=741952648291

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• Masada
• Fortress
• Siege
• Roman
• Palestine
• Jewish
• Zealot
• History
• Flavius
• Silva
• Eleazar
• Ben
• Yair

[FiendsInRedSatin1]

Why is it all Romans have Brit accents? Wouldn't it be more historically correct to have the scene to go like this:

"Yo, Tony, how were dey able to burn da huts and da graneries, huh?"

"Yo, I burnt da huts?"

"You did?! Forggaddaboutit!"

[123romanovski]

Can you believe it ? Today ,i spent six full hours watching this magnificent masterpiece !!!!!!!! Just wonderful and splendid as " Gone with the wind " " El CID " "THE 10 Commandments " " Ben - Hur " " Spartacus " or even " Gladiator " or "Braveheart" and "HBO Rome"......A must see!!!!!!

[karakorum2007]

@seppsters  Sorry guy, I couldn´t avoid see your comment, but I have to make a precision on your statement: The last whose lost a colony were the British, when in July 1 , 1997 they transferred his sovereignty of Hong Kong to the Popular Republic of China. Being strictly, it seems there still remain some colonies like French Guyana, in the north of South America, between Brazil and Venezuela. It proximity to Ecuatorial earth zone is advantageous for spacecraft launching

[halldeathcats]

It's cool they made I movie about it. I climbed Masada !!

[seppsters]

@rangerbobcat

No, the portuguese were. They lost their colonies in the 70's.

[rangerbobcat]

@jfkfgrygrr As a friend of mine once said. "Well, the British are the last people to have an

actual empire, so why not?"

[grimblebrumble17889]

@silentobservor There will always be class. There will always be the downtrodden. There will always be slaves. This is the world we live in. Capitalism and the downtredding of our fellow man is how we survive. It is how the west survives. It is how the Jews got their land back. Helping those weaker than you only entitiles destruction. It was a religion of men and the symbolism of humanity, a religion that personifies our species. The strong survive and the weak are enslaved.

[silentobservor]

@grimblebrumble17889 I respect your appreciation of egalitiarianism. However Roman polytheism did margianalize entire classes. It was built around heirarchies and slavery. Patricians and noble plebeians, for instance, claimed divine ancestry to justify their position among the ruling class. Furthermore, it was a segregated religion wherein freedmen served some gods and slaves served others.

[grimblebrumble17889]

@silentobservor It doesent marginalise women. People of other religions. People of other races. Does not assume that it has any buisness when it comes to peoples sexual tastes. Does not assume that it has any place within marital or family life. The Abrahamic religions are disgusting and hypocritical and barbaric.

[silentobservor]

@grimblebrumble17889 What the world?? What makes the Roman polytheism any better than any other religion?

[grimblebrumble17889]

@ThunderFarts420 The Romans had the right idea. Destroy every last trace of it. The civilisation and honour and morality of the Roman gods, empire and people were to fine for such a horrific and savage place. In my opinion every Muslim every Christian and especially every Jew living there should be crucified or incinerated and the place wiped from the history books along with their foolish and vain religion.