Masada (1981)
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.
Drama, Action & Adventure
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
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