# Breakthrough

Breakthrough or break through may refer to:

## Arts
### 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

### Music
#### 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