
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 Albinus

as Plinius

as Fronto

as Elder

as General Marcus Quadratus

as Merovius, Head Tribune

as Vettius

as Surgeon

as Norbanus

as Titus

as Senator Mucianus

as Lentius

as Quintilia

as Maro

as Master of Ceremonies

as Centurion

as Sergeant

as Emperor Vespasian

as Modern-Day Narrator (voice, uncredited)

as Moabite Prostitute (uncredited)