Witness (disambiguation)

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

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
• ', a 2015 book Holocaust survivors
• The Witness (character), several characters by Marvel Comics

• Witness (play), a 1968 play by Terrence McNally
• ', a series of BBC Radio plays

Television

Series

• Witness (2006 TV programme), a documentary programme that airs on Al Jazeera English
• Witness (TV series), a Canadian documentary series (1992–2004)
• The Witness (TV series), a 1960–61 show broadcast on the CBS network
• Witnesses (TV series), a 2014 French series (Les Témoins)

Episodes

• "Witness" (Better Call Saul), 2017
• "Witness" (The Detectives), 1994
• "Witness" (Person of Interest), 2011
• "Witness" (The Secret Circle), 2012
• "The Witness" (Queen of Swords), 2000

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