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>> the demonstrators prevail and push police into retreat. >> and then the protesters came onto our side, and it was amazing, their numbers. >> nora's footage, like so many of the powerful images that are captured during those first weeks of revolution, ends up on youtube and inspires others in egypt and beyond to join the revolution. >> i think it was really the most documented event in our lives. >> just 18 days after it begins egypt's revolution succeeds in pushing hosni mubarak from power when on february 11th, 2011, he resigns. thousands of egyptians celebrate the end of his regime. but f...

Libya to cover the conflict. >> it began with protests, as in many of the arab countries, inspired by egypt and tunisia. people started protesting for more freedom, but the reaction from the gadhafi regime was to shoot protesters, to try and stop these protests with violence. >> the violence that gadhafi unleashed on them was a violence of another order altogether. we're not talking now mubarak's security forces. we're talking about mercenaries. we're talking about jets. we're talking about tanks. so with the libyan revolution the idea of non-violence had to be laid to rest for the sake of lib...

Facebook, it went out on twitter, but it also went out among the activist community. and a lot of people thought this is just another call, and who sends out a facebook invitation anyway for a revolution? >> reporter: the organizers are stunned by the response. more than 10,000 egyptians answer the call, filling cairo's tahrir square. >> and they started chanting anti-mubarak when they saw mubarak's police go out there and beat people brutally and start shooting people dead. and so you had ordinary egyptians going out there and say mubarak must go. >> hosni mubarak is egypt's president who's h...

But there's other kinds of revolution. the occupy movement is not just about shuffling the deck chairs. it's about, you know, finding a different boat. coming up -- cell phone video captures a dictator's final moments. >> they wanted it over. they wanted it finished. alert.

The images of her beating provoke outrage and appear in newspapers around the globe. her story also sparks widespread condemnation of the egyptian military. in the end the ability of ordinary citizens to upload their videos and share them with a global audience is one of the most powerful tools of the arab spring. >> before we had access to the internet, before we had the ability to upload these videos, you had to somehow be able to gain access to the media, to the regime. and so the people who most benefited from the internet or video are the most marginalized because what it's done for them ...