Masada
1981•13•1 Seasons•4 Episodes•7.0•Ended
DramaAction & Adventure
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.
Creator
Joel Oliansky
Network
ABC
Origin
US
Cast
Peter O'Toole
General Cornelius Flavius Silva
Peter Strauss
Eleazar ben Yair
Barbara Carrera
Sheva
Alan Feinstein
Aaron
Giulia Pagano
Miriam
Anthony Quayle
Rubrius Gallus
Paul L. Smith
Gideon
David Warner
Senator Pomponius Falco
Clive Francis
Attius, Head Tribune
David Opatoshu
Shimon
Richard Pierson
Ephraim
Joseph Wiseman
Jerahmeel, Head Essene
David A. Block
Reuben
Vernon Dobtcheff
Chief Priest
David Mauro
Epos
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