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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.

Peter O'Toole
General Cornelius Flavius Silva

Peter Strauss
Eleazar ben Yair

Barbara Carrera
Sheva



Joel Oliansky
George Eckstein
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

Miniseries
4 episodes
April 5, 1981
Arnon Milchan Productions
N/A

Universal Television
US