TV show

Masada

Name: Masada
Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure
Released: 1981-04-05
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Alan Feinstein, Giulia Pagano

13 1981 2 h 00 min / per episode 1 season · 4 episodes

Drama Action & Adventure

71%

Audience score68 votes on TMDB

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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.

Creator: Joel Oliansky
Status: Ended
First air date: 05/04/1981
Original language: English

Main cast

Peter O'Toole General Cornelius Flavius Silva

Peter Strauss Eleazar ben Yair

Barbara Carrera Sheva

Alan Feinstein Aaron

Giulia Pagano Miriam

Anthony Quayle Rubrius Gallus

Paul L. Smith Gideon

David Warner Senator Pomponius Falco

Clive Francis Attius, Head Tribune

David Opatoshu Shimon

Richard Pierson Ephraim

Joseph Wiseman Jerahmeel, Head Essene

David A. Block Reuben

Vernon Dobtcheff Chief Priest

David Mauro Epos

Alexander Peleg Zidon

Joey Sagal Seth

Michael Shillo Ezra

Seasons and episodes

Miniseries

4 episodes · 1981

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 fortr

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