Masada

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.

First Air Date: 1981-04-05

Rating: 7.04/10

Cast

Peter O'Toole

Peter Strauss

Barbara Carrera

Alan Feinstein

Giulia Pagano

Anthony Quayle

Paul L. Smith

David Warner

Clive Francis

David Opatoshu