Masada
1981 Drama, Action & Adventure 1 season
TMDB rating 7.1/10 Ended
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.
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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.
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Peter O'TooleGeneral Cornelius Flavius Silva
Peter StraussEleazar ben Yair
Barbara CarreraSheva
Alan FeinsteinAaron
Giulia PaganoMiriam
Anthony QuayleRubrius Gallus
Paul L. SmithGideon
David WarnerSenator Pomponius Falco
Clive FrancisAttius, Head Tribune
David OpatoshuShimon- Richard PiersonEphraim
Joseph WisemanJerahmeel, Head Essene
- Created by
- Joel Oliansky
- Network
- ABC
- First aired
- Apr 5, 1981
- Latest episode
- Apr 8, 1981
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