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Masada

1981–1981
Created byJoel Oliansky
1 Season
4 Episodes

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.

CAST
Peter O'TooleGeneral Cornelius Flavius SilvaPeter StraussEleazar ben YairBarbara CarreraShevaAlan FeinsteinAaronGiulia PaganoMiriamAnthony QuayleRubrius GallusPaul L. SmithGideonDavid WarnerSenator Pomponius FalcoClive FrancisAttius, Head Tribune
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GENRES
DramaAction & Adventure
STATUSEnded
RATING
7.0
NETWORK
ABC
EPISODES
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