MiniseriesEnded
Masada (1981)
1 season4 episodes99 min per episode
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.
- First aired
- April 5, 1981
- Last episode
- April 8, 1981
- Network
- ABC
- Country of origin
- United States
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Cast
- Peter O'Toole as General Cornelius Flavius Silva
- Peter Strauss as Eleazar ben Yair
- Barbara Carrera as Sheva
- Alan Feinstein as Aaron
- Giulia Pagano as Miriam
- Anthony Quayle as Rubrius Gallus
- Paul L. Smith as Gideon
- David Warner as Senator Pomponius Falco
- David Warner as Falco
- Clive Francis as Attius, Head Tribune
- David Opatoshu as Shimon