Masada 1981

Synopsis

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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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

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