After being invaded by the Romans in 70 C.E, the Jews has no choice but get out of their home town to move to the fortress at Masada, a mountain in the Jedean desert, where they can fight against the Roman armies. A group of woman with extraordinary talent gradually take the power and help the Jew in the resistance.
29 March 1972, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
1 January 1981, Dublin, Ireland
14 September 1947, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
17 September 1975, Smolian, Bulgaria
29 November 1990, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
12 November 1979, Santiago, Chile
1977, Suffolk, England, UK
10 September 1979, Malta
1971, Cairo, Egypt
15 December 1990, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
4 June 1991, London, England, UK
April 02, 2015
If you are a fan of ancient Judaica or faith-based historical dramas, The Dovekeepers offers enough to keep you interested, if not wholly entertained.
March 31, 2015
But beyond the expected cheese factor, The Dovekeepers is a missed opportunity to deliver a compelling modern interpretation of the famous mass suicide.
March 31, 2015
The Dovekeepers takes an epic true story of courage and resistance - the battle of Jewish settlers against Roman soldiers in Masada about A.D. 73 - and boils it down to a Harlequin romance.
March 30, 2015
In the end, The Dovekeepers has too many mixed messages but not enough of a point.
March 31, 2015
The Dovekeepers aspires to be All That Kingdom Of Heaven Allows, but major execution problems clip the wings of this wannabe Biblical melodrama.
April 02, 2015
The Dovekeepers... is so bad it is virtually impossible to believe it exists in the current landscape of American television.
March 30, 2015
Designed to play as a moving adaptation of Alice Hoffman's bestseller, The Dovekeepers is more of a wounded duck.
March 31, 2015
It's not the stance of The Dovekeepers that is inherently problematic (if only because the audience is likely to agree with it), but how the story is told.
April 02, 2015
In all, the actors deliver even when the dialogue feels a bit starched and the story seems to hew a bit too faithfully to Josephus' real documentation of the Masada siege's survivor tales.
April 02, 2015
Here's to the return of the classic network-TV miniseries, colorfully if rather breathlessly embodied by CBS's two-part The Dovekeepers, a tragic historical romance played out against the fabled siege of Masada in the year 70 CE.
