The Amish were named after Jacob Ammann, a seventeenth-century Swiss Mennonite Bishop, who inspired his followers to establish communities governed by strict rules of behavior and dress. The Amish moved from Europe to the Pennsylvania colony in the early eighteenth century and currently live in many rural parts of the US, where they practice old-fashioned farming techniques and eschew the trappings of modern life, including electricity automobiles, television and higher education. The Amish are notable for successfully perpetuating theocratic societies which exist largely outside the control of federal and state laws. The Amish figured prominently in the film Witness (1984).