Trial (disambiguation)

A trial is the presentation of information in a formal setting, usually a court.

Trial or Trials may also refer to:

Film

• The Trial (1948 film), an Austrian film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and based on the Tiszaeszlár affair
• Trial (film), a 1955 American film
• The Trial (1962 film), a French-Italian-German film directed by Orson Welles and starring Anthony Perkins, based on the Kafka novel
• The Trial (1993 film), a British film directed by David Hugh Jones and starring Kyle MacLachlan and Anthony Hopkins
• The Trial (2006 film), a Peruvian film directed by Judith Vélez
• The Trial (2009 film), an Irish documentary on the trial of Kosovo's former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj for war crimes
• The Trial (2010 film), an American film directed by Gary Wheeler and based on the novel by Robert Whitlow
• The Trial (2014 film), a Filipino film directed by Chito S. Rono
• The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov, a Polish-Czech-Estonian documentary film by Askold Kurov
• The Trial (2023 film), an Indian Telugu-language film
• The Trial (2025 film), a British television drama directed by Michael Samuels from a screenplay by Mark Burt

Literature

• The Trial, a 1925 novel by Franz Kafka
• Trial, a 1955 novel by Don Mankiewicz

Music

Bands

• The Trial (Czech band), a 1990s synthpop band from the Czech Republic
• The Trial (German band), a German-Turkish-Swiss alternative/experimental band
• Trial (San Francisco Bay Area band), a post-punk band
• Trial (Seattle band), a political straight-edge hardcore band
• Trials (band), an American heavy metal band
• Trial (Swedish band), heavy metal band signed to Metal Blade Records

Albums

• Trial (album), a 2012 album by the Pillows

Songs

• "The Trial" (song), a song from the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall

People

• Trials (musician) (born 1983), Australian rapper and producer
• Antoine Trial (1737–1795), French tenor

Television

• Trial (British TV series), a 1971 British TV series
• The Trial (Italian TV series), a 2019 Italian TV series
• The Trial (Indian TV series), a 2023 Indian TV series
• Goliath (TV series), a 2015 Amazon Prime television series that was originally titled "Trial" but later renamed

Episodes

• "Trial" (Batman: The Animated Series), 1995
• "The Trial" (Angel), 2000
• "The Trial" (The Colbys), 1986
• "The Trial" (Dilbert), 1999
• "The Trial" (Dynasty 1984)
• "The Trial" (Dynasty 1986)
• "The Trial" (Dynasty 1988)
• "The Trial" (My Name Is Earl), 2007
• "The Trial" (Recess), 1997
• "The Trial" (Rugrats), 1991
• "The Trial" (Steven Universe), 2017
• "The Trial", an unproduced episode of Invader Zim

Theatre

• An Triail, Irish-language play, unrelated to the Kafka novel
• "Trial", scene 2 from the first act of Einstein on the Beach, composed by Philip Glass
• Der Prozeß (opera), a 1953 production with music by Gottfried von Einem and a libretto by Boris Blacher
• The Trial (2014 opera), a 2014 production with music by Philip Glass and a libretto by Christopher Hampton

Other uses

• Trials (journal), an online open-access medical journal
• Trial (number), a grammatical number referring to 'three items'
• The Trial (painting), a 1947 painting by Sidney Nolan
• Trial (ship), several ships
• Trials (series), a platform racing video game series and the first game in the series

See also

• Bisha'a, trial by ordeal among the Bedouin
• Evaluation
• Mistrial (disambiguation)
• Trial by fire (disambiguation)
• Trial Run (disambiguation)
• Try (disambiguation)
• Tryall, a ship which was wrecked in 1622