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.

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Peter O'Toole

Peter Strauss

Barbara Carrera

Alan Feinstein

Giulia Pagano

Anthony Quayle

Paul L. Smith

David Warner

Clive Francis

David Opatoshu

Richard Pierson

Joseph Wiseman

David A. Block

Vernon Dobtcheff

David Mauro

Alexander Peleg

Joey Sagal

Michael Shillo