Breakthrough

Breakthrough or break through may refer to:

• Tunnel hole-through, also known as breakthrough, when the two ends of a tunnel under construction meet
• 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

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: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, a 2009 book by journalist Gwen Ifill

Film and television

• 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
• 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

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

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

Other uses

• Breakthrough (board game), an abstract strategy board game
• Breakthrough (military)

See also

• All pages with titles containing Breakthrough
• Breakthru (disambiguation)
• "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", a song by The Doors