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.
April 5, 1981
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Arnon Milchan Productions, Universal Television
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Peter O'Toole
General Cornelius Flavius Silva
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Peter Strauss
Eleazar ben Yair
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Barbara Carrera
Sheva
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Alan Feinstein
Aaron
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Giulia Pagano
Miriam
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Anthony Quayle
Rubrius Gallus
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Paul L. Smith
Gideon
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David Warner
Senator Pomponius Falco
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Clive Francis
Attius, Head Tribune
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David Opatoshu
Shimon
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Richard Pierson
Ephraim
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Joseph Wiseman
Jerahmeel, Head Essene
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