History Trivia / Masada

* CompanionShow: ABC executives were concerned that audiences would be unfamiliar with the historical background of the story, and commissioned a 30-minute documentary, ''Back To Masada''. Narrated by Creator/PeterOToole (who plays Flavius Silva in the miniseries), it recounts the history of the UsefulNotes/JewishRevolts against Rome. The network gave the documentary to its affiliates to run in the weeks before the miniseries premiered.

* CompanionShow: ABC executives were concerned that audiences would be unfamiliar with the historical background of the story, and commissioned a 30-minute documentary, ''Back To Masada''. Narrated by Creator/PeterOToole (who plays Flavius Silva in the mini-series), it recounts the history of the UsefulNotes/JewishRevolts against Rome. The network gave the documentary to its affiliates to run in the weeks before the miniseries premiered.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The final scene of the miniseries is the swearing in of an [[UsefulNotes/IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles Israeli military]] squadron on the grounds of Masada in the 1980s, with the oath that the fortress won't fall again. Israeli Defense Forces oath swearings stopped being done in Masada in the 1990s after the higher-ups thought it over and decided that an oath to be DefiantToTheEnd in a place where there was a mass suicide gave off mixed signals, to put it nicely.

* CompanionShow: ABC executives were concerned that audiences would be unfamiliar with the historical background of the story, and commissioned a 30-minute documentary, ''Back To Masada''. Narrated by Creator/PeterOToole (who plays Flavius Silva in the film), it recounts the history of the UsefulNotes/JewishRevolts against Rome. The network gave the documentary to its affiliates to run in the weeks before the miniseries premiered.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The final scene of the miniseries is the swearing in of an Israeli military squadron on the grounds of Masada in the 1980s, with the oath that the fortress won't fall again. Israeli Defense Forces oath swearings stopped being done in Masada in the 1990s after the higher-ups thought it over and decided that an oath to be DefiantToTheEnd in a place where there was a mass suicide gave off mixed signals, to put it nicely.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The final scene of the miniseries is the swearing in of an Israeli military squadron on the grounds of Masada in the 1980s, with the oath that the fortress won't fall again. Israeli Defense Forces oath swearings stopped being done on Masada in the 1990s after the higher-ups thought it over and decided that an oath to be DefiantToTheEnd in a place where there was a mass suicide gave off mixed signals, to put it nicely.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The final scene of the miniseries is the swearing in of an Israeli military squadron on the grounds of Masada in the 1980s, with the oath that the fortress won't fall again. IDF oath swearings stopped being done on Masada in the 1990s after the higher-ups thought it over and decided that an oath to be DefiantToTheEnd in a place where there was a mass suicide gave off mixed signals, to put it nicely.

* CompanionShow: ABC executives were concerned that audiences would be unfamiliar with the historical background of the story, and commissioned a 30-minute documentary, ''Back To Masada''. Narrated by Creator/PeterOToole, it recounts the history of the UsefulNotes/JewishRevolts against Rome. The network gave the documentary to its affiliates to run in the weeks before the miniseries premiered.

* CompanionShow: ABC, concerned that audiences would be unfamiliar with the historical background of the story, commissioned a 30-minute documentary, ''Back To Masada''. Narrated by Creator/PeterOToole, it recounts the history of the UsefulNotes/JewishRevolts against Rome. The network gave the documentary to its affiliates to run in the weeks before the miniseries premiered.

* CompanionShow: ABC, concerned that audiences would be unfamiliar with the historical background of the story, commissioned a 30-minute documentary, ''Back To Masada''. Starring Creator/PeterOToole, it recounts the history of the UsefulNotes/JewishRevolts against Rome. The network gave the documentary to its affiliates to run in the weeks before the miniseries premiered.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Completely averted. It was filmed on the site of the actual siege, in modern UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Completely averted. It was filmed on the site of the actual siege in Israel.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Completely averted. It was filmed on the site of the actual siege.