With footage shot in the center of Egypt's Tahrir Square from the beginning of the battles to the climax of the celebration, audiences experience first-hand the people-powered revolt that brought down a dictator and changed Egypt forever.
Direction
Veteran HBO docs team embedded at ground zero.
Editing
Chaos organized into coherent narrative arc.
Practical Effects
No reenactments — pure vérité danger and hope.
Director
Matthew O'Neill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jon Alpert's crew was among the only Western journalists inside Tahrir continuously — their hotel became a field hospital and footage archive.
Shot entirely before the military coup that reversed these gains; the film documents a window of possibility now largely closed.
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