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The Arab Awakening - The End of a Dictator
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The Arab Awakening - The End of a Dictator

48 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Egypt's uprising against Hosni Mubarak unfolds through the people who lived it: activists, ordinary citizens, and officials whose lives had been shaped for decades by his regime. This film is one entry in a series on the Arab uprisings that also covers Tunisia and Libya, and it stays close to Egypt, tracing how a fear that kept people silent for years broke apart in a matter of weeks. Interviews carry the film rather than narration, letting protesters and bystanders describe the moment they decided the risk of speaking out no longer mattered. The camera moves between packed city streets and quieter rural scenes, showing a revolt that drew in students, workers, and families rather than a single faction. Archival news footage tracks the regime's collapse as it happened, while the personal accounts fill in what the headlines missed: the arrests, the waiting, the disbelief once Mubarak was actually gone. The film's focus stays on that turning point, when a government that had seemed permanent simply stopped being obeyed.