Masada (1981)
Drama, Action & Adventure • 1 Season(s)
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.
Creators / Directors: Boris Sagal
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
