Masada (1981)

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.

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as General Cornelius Flavius Silva

as Eleazar ben Yair

Barbara Carrera

Barbara Carrera

as Rubrius Gallus

as Senator Pomponius Falco

as Attius, Head Tribune

Richard Pierson

Richard Pierson

as Jerahmeel, Head Essene

Vernon Dobtcheff

Vernon Dobtcheff

as Chief Priest

Alexander Peleg

Alexander Peleg

Christopher Biggins

Christopher Biggins

Reuven Bar-Yotam

Reuven Bar-Yotam

as General Marcus Quadratus

Anthony Valentine

Anthony Valentine

as Merovius, Head Tribune

Michael Elphick

Michael Elphick

as Engineering Officer

Michael Schneider

Michael Schneider

Richard Basehart

Richard Basehart

as Modern-Day Narrator (voice, uncredited)

Nigel Davenport

Nigel Davenport

as Senator Mucianus

Norman Rossington

Norman Rossington

John Terry Bell

John Terry Bell

as Master of Ceremonies

William Morgan Sheppard

William Morgan Sheppard

as Emperor Vespasian

as Moabite Prostitute (uncredited)

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Seasons

Season 1

Miniseries

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