Factual error: The Essenes climb Masada bearing the scrolls. Just as Joseph Wiseman is framed solo, a black SUV drives from left-to-right below him on the road.
Masada (1981)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Barbara Carrera, Peter Strauss, Alan Feinstein
Revealing mistake: After Lentius stabs Silva, the knife blade Lentius used bends and wobbles as it is thrown to the ground.
Factual error: During some scenes where cavalry is used by both the Romans and the Zealots, some saddles show stirrups attached, which weren't available until centuries after the events of the Masada siege.
Cornelius Flavius Silva: A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.
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