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.
as General Cornelius Flavius Silva
as Eleazar ben Yair
as Sheva
as Aaron
as Miriam
as Rubrius Gallus
as Gideon
as Senator Pomponius Falco
as Attius, Head Tribune
as Shimon
as Ephraim
as Jerahmeel, Head Essene
as Reuben
as Chief Priest
as Epos
as Zidon
as Seth
as Ezra
