Masada

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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Top of the call sheet

• 
  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

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