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1985
Witness is a 1985 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Peter Weir. Starring Harrison Ford, its plot focuses on a police detective protecting an Amish woman and her son, who becomes a target after he witnesses a brutal murder in a Philadelphia railroad station.
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Although it happens extremely rarely, Hollywood films can be educational. It happened in 1985 with *Witness*, crime drama directed by Peter Weir. That film is responsible for making "Amish", word until that time used only by those familiar with relatively small and obscure Mennonite sect in Pennsylvania, into entry in world’s vocabularies and part of global popular culture. The opening titles set the plot in 1984 Pe…More
