Details
- Release: Apr 05 1981
- Language: English
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 4
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.
Credits
David Warner
Senator Pomponius Falco
Peter O'Toole
General Cornelius Flavius Silva
Barbara Carrera
Sheva
Peter Strauss
Eleazar ben Yair
Joseph Wiseman
Jerahmeel, Head Essene
Vernon Dobtcheff
Chief Priest
Clive Francis
Attius, Head Tribune
David Opatoshu
Shimon
Anthony Quayle
Rubrius Gallus
Paul L. Smith
Gideon
Joey Sagal
Seth
Michael Shillo
Ezra
Alexander Peleg
Zidon
Alan Feinstein
Aaron
Giulia Pagano
Miriam
David Mauro
Epos
Richard Pierson
Ephraim
David A. Block
Reuben