Peter O'Toole
General Cornelius Flavius Silva
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Masada: With Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Alan Feinstein. After the destruction of the Second Temple, nine hundred Jewish zealots hold out against a five thousand man Roman legion on the mountaintop fortress of Masada.
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- 1981-04-05
- Action, Drama, History
- 394
Brief Synopsis. Peter O'Toole made his American TV acting debut as the Roman general leading the epic 1st-century siege of Masada, the mountain fortress where about 900 Jewish Zealots made a heroic stand against 5,000 Roman soldiers.
Masada is an American television miniseries that aired on ABC in April 1981. Advertised by the network as an "ABC Novel for Television," it was a fictionalized account of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Israel by legions of the Roman Empire in AD 73.
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When the Romans successfully take Jerusalem, a combative faction of Jews relocates to a mountaintop redoubt in Masada under the leadership of Eleazar ben Yair (Peter Strauss) and refuses to...
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- Boris Sagal
- History, Drama
Sep 11, 2007 · In first century A.D., Flavius Silva (Peter O Toole), commander in Roman Palestine, leads his forces in combat against the remaining Jewish Zealots who have taken refuge in the seemingly impregnable fortress of Masada.
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- 6 hours and 34 minutes
The Roman invasion of Judea in prompts Eleazer (Peter Strauss) and his 'renegade' Zealots to take refuge in the virtually impregnable Masada mountain/rock fortress in the middle of what is now the Negev desert, by the Dead Sea.
A Roman general leads the epic 1st-century siege of Masada, the mountain fortress where more than 900 Jews made a heroic stand against 5,000 Roman soldiers.
