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Series · 1981
Masada
1 seasonABC
- Drama
- Action & Adventure
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.
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Seasons
1 season · 4 episodes
- Miniseries4 episodes · 1981
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Cast
Peter O'TooleGeneral Cornelius Flavius Silva
Peter StraussEleazar ben Yair
Barbara CarreraSheva
Alan FeinsteinAaron
Giulia PaganoMiriam
Anthony QuayleRubrius Gallus
Paul L. SmithGideon
David WarnerSenator Pomponius Falco
Clive FrancisAttius, Head Tribune
David OpatoshuShimon- Richard PiersonEphraim
Joseph WisemanJerahmeel, Head Essene
Details
- Created by
- Joel Oliansky
- Director
- Boris Sagal
- Novel
- Ernest K. Gann
- Music
- Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens
- Cinematography
- Paul Lohmann
- Editor
- Edwin F. England, Peter Kirby, Robert L. Kimble
- Producer
- George Eckstein, Richard Irving
- First aired
- April 5, 1981
- Last aired
- April 8, 1981
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- ABC
- Episode length
- 2h
- Language
- English, French
- TMDB score
- 7.1 / 10 from 67 votes
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