Masada
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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.
Created by Joel Oliansky
Network: ABC
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Peter O'Toole General Cornelius Flavius Silva -
Peter Strauss Eleazar ben Yair -
Barbara Carrera Sheva -
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 - Richard Pierson Ephraim
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Joseph Wiseman Jerahmeel, Head Essene
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