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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.
Cast: 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, Christopher Biggins, Warren Clarke
Writers: Joel Oliansky (Writer), Ernest K. Gann (Novel)
Cinematographer: Paul Lohmann
Production Designer: George Renne, Kuli Sander
Editors: Robert L. Kimble, Ron Rutberg
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens
Costume Designer: Vittorio Nino Novarese
Casting Director: Mark Malis, Weston Drury Jr.
Producers: Jennings Lang, George Eckstein, Richard Irving
Production: Arnon Milchan Productions, Universal Television
Network: ABC
