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Masada

7.0 4 Eps Drama   Action & Adventure   1981
Arnon Milchan Productions   Universal Television  
Creator(s): Joel Oliansky,

Release Date: 05 Sun, Apr 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.

  

Seasons (1)

Miniseries

Miniseries

4 Episodes

Casts of Miniseries

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

Clive Francis

as Attius, Head Tribune

David Opatoshu

as Shimon

Richard Pierson

as Ephraim

Joseph Wiseman

as Jerahmeel, Head Essene

David A. Block

as Reuben

Vernon Dobtcheff

as Chief Priest

David Mauro

as Epos

Alexander Peleg

as Zidon

Joey Sagal

as Seth

Michael Shillo

as Ezra

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