Breakthrough

Breakthrough or break through may refer to:

Books

 * Break Through (book), a 2007 book about environmentalism by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
 * Break Through (play), a 2011 episodic play portraying scenes from LGBT life
 * The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer, a 2018 book by Charles Graeber
 * The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, a 2009 book by journalist Gwen Ifill
 * "The Breakthrough" (story), a 1971 short story by Daphne du Maurier

Film and television

 * Break-through (1944 film), a Canadian documentary film
 * Breakthrough (1950 film), an American war film featuring John Agar
 * Breakthrough (1986 film), a Soviet disaster film
 * Breakthrough (1979 film), a West German war film, sequel to Cross of Iron
 * Break Through!, a 2005 Japanese film directed by Kazuyuki Izutsu
 * Break-through (2006 film), a Russian drama film
 * Breakthrough (2019 film), an American Christian film
 * Breakthrough: With Rod Parsley, a 1996 television program featuring Rod Parsley
 * Breakthrough (TV series), a 2015 National Geographic Channel television program

Albums

 * Break Through (album), a 1990 album by Japanese rock band B'z
 * Breakthrough (Colbie Caillat album), 2009
 * Breakthrough (George Adams & Don Pullen album), 1986
 * Breakthrough (The Gaslamp Killer album), 2012
 * Breakthrough! (album), a 1972 album by the Cedar Walton/Hank Mobley Quintet
 * The Breakthrough, a 2005 album by American singer Mary J. Blige
 * Breakthru', an album by Nidji
 * Breakthrough, a 1986 album by American clarinetist Eddie Daniels

Songs

 * "Breakthru" (song), a song by Queen from the 1989 album The Miracle
 * "Breakthrough" (Aya Hirano song), a 2006 single
 * "Breakthrough" (Lemonade Mouth song), a 2011 single
 * "Breakthrough" (Twice song), a 2019 single
 * "The Breakthrough", by LL Cool J from the 1987 album Bigger and Deffer
 * "Breakthrough", by Modest Mouse from the 1996 album This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
 * "Breakthrough", by Richard Wright from the 1996 album Broken China
 * "Breakthrough", by Big Wreck from the 2001 album The Pleasure and the Greed
 * "Breakthrough", a 2004 single by Hope 7
 * "Break-Thru", by Dirty Projectors from the 2018 album Lamp Lit Prose

Medicine

 * Breakthrough infection, a case of illness in which a vaccinated individual becomes sick from the same illness that the vaccine is meant to prevent
 * Breakthrough pain, sudden transitory pain that is not controlled by a patient's usual pain management regimen
 * Breakthrough seizure, an epileptic seizure in a patient who is taking medicine to prevent seizures

Prizes

 * Breakthrough Prize

Organizations

 * Breakthrough (Dutch political history), a Dutch political movement in the late 1940s
 * Breakthrough (human rights), a human rights organization in the U.S. and India
 * Breakthrough (Transnistria), a political youth organization in Transnistria
 * Breakthrough Party, a democratic socialist British political party

Other

 * Breakthrough (board game), an abstract strategy board game
 * Breakthrough (military), a situation where an offensive force has broken through an enemy defensive line
 * Emergency breakthrough, a function on land-line telephones that allows a caller to interrupt a phone conversation of another caller
 * Epiphany (feeling), an experience of sudden enlightenment or of intellectual discovery
 * Scrubber breakthrough, a failure mode in rebreathers when the carbon dioxide scrubber is exhausted.
 * Tunnel hole-through, also known as breakthrough, when the two ends of a tunnel under construction meet
 * Breakthrough role