Masada
originally aired on ABC
The miniseries starred Peter O'Toole as Roman legion commander Lucius Flavius Silva, Peter Strauss as Jewish commander Eleazar ben Ya'ir, and Barbara Carrera as Silva's Jewish mistress. The script is based on the 1971 novel The Antagonists by Ernest Gann. The siege ended when the Roman armies entered the fortress, only to discover the mass suicide by the Jewish defenders.