Masada
tv show
4 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired April 05, 1981
Genres:
Overview
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.
Miniseries
4 episodes
Air Date
April 05, 1981
Overview
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.
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
Clive Francis
as
Attius, Head Tribune
David Opatoshu
as
Shimon
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Richard Pierson
as
Ephraim
Joseph Wiseman
as
Jerahmeel, Head Essene