Masada
7.01981120 min1 Seasons
DramaAction & Adventure
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.
Top 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
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Production
Arnon Milchan ProductionsUniversal Television