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A witness is someone who has first-hand knowledge of something, such as a crime or wedding, and usually by seeing it.

Contents

• Films
• Games
• Literature
• Music
• Groups
• Albums
• Songs
• Periodicals
• Plays
• Television
• Series
• Episodes
• Religion
• Other uses
• See also

Witness or The witness may also refer to:

Films

• The Witness (1969 French film), a drama film
• The Witness (1969 Hungarian film), a satirical film, also known as A tanú
• Witness (1985 film), a film directed by Peter Weir, starring Harrison Ford
• Witness (1988 film), a Malayalam film
• The Witness (1992 film), a short film starring Elijah Wood and Gary Sinise
• Witness (1995 film), an Indian film
• Witness (2022 film), a 2022 Indian Tamil-language drama film
• The Witness (2000 film), a film by James LaVeck and Jenny Stein
• Witnesses (2003 film), a Croatian film
• The Witnesses , a 2007 French film by André Téchiné
• The Witness (2012 film), a Philippine film
• The Witness (2015 Chinese film), a crime drama film
• The Witness (2015 American film), a documentary about the murder of Kitty Genovese
• The Witness (2018 film), a South Korean thriller
• Witnesses (2018 film), a historical drama by Konstantin Fam
• The Witness (2024 film), an Austrian-German crime drama film

Games

• The Witness (1983 video game), an interactive fiction computer game
• The Witness (2016 video game), an exploration-puzzle game
• The Witness, the main antagonist of Destiny's Light and Darkness saga, from Destiny to Destiny 2: The Final Shape

Literature

• Witness (memoir), an autobiography by Whittaker Chambers
• Witness (novel), a 2001 verse novel of historical fiction by Karen Hesse
• Witness (Milligan book), a 2020 non-fiction book by Louise Milligan
• Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations , a 2015 book Holocaust survivors
• The Witness (character), several characters by Marvel Comics

Music

Periodicals

• Witness (magazine), a magazine published by the Black Mountain Institute
• Witness (religious newspaper) edited by Hugh Miller in the mid nineteenth century
• The Witness (newspaper), a South African daily newspaper published in Pietermaritzburg

Plays

• Witness (play), a 1968 play by Terrence McNally
• Witness: Five Plays from the Gospel of Luke , a series of BBC Radio plays

Television

Religion

• Witnessing or evangelism, a name for proselytising in Christianity
  • Jehovah's Witnesses, a restorationist Christian denomination whose name references the above

Other uses

• Witness (mathematics), in mathematical logic, a specific value to be substituted for variable of an existential statement of the form such that is true
• Witness, a number that plays a role in a primality test
• Witness (sculpture), a 2023 sculpture by Shahzia Sikander
• Witness, a cast-iron sculpture by Antony Gormley
• Witness (altar), a monument in the Book of Joshua
• Witness (organization), a non-profit organization started by Peter Gabriel
• Witnesses, different documents of a single, original text in textual criticism

See also

• Eyewitness (disambiguation), various meanings
• Two witnesses
• Three Witnesses
• Eight Witnesses

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