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.

• Boris SagalDirector
• Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
• Morton StevensOriginal Music Composer

• 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