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 thriller film

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 <!-- Request to create the article has been made, but no action has been taken. -->
  • The Trial (Italian TV series), a 2019 Italian TV series
  • The Trial (Indian TV series), a 2023 Indian TV series
  • The Trial (2025 film), a British television drama film directed by Michael Samuels from a screenplay by Mark Burt
  • 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 (What We Do in the Shadows)
  • "The Trial", an unproduced episode of Invader Zim

Theatre

  • An Triail, Irish-language play by Máiréad Ní Ghráda, 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

  • Clinical trial, an experimental study in a medical context
  • Time trial, a form of competition in racing sports, often used as a preliminary qualification round
  • Trials (journal), an online open-access medical journal
  • Trial (grammatical 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