To most of the world, the protests in Egypt looked like a spontaneous uprising. But according to filmmaker Lillie Paquette, it was actually the culmination of years of methodical organizing. We meet her and get a behind-the-scenes view of the buildup to a revolution.

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PART THREE

Egypt's Revolutionary Backstory

We started this segment with a clip of Lillie Paquette. She's a Canadian-American filmmaker. And in the tape she's talking to an Egyptian activist named Basem Fathi, on the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned.

Lillie Paquette met Basem Fathi a-year-and-a-half before that while she was filming a documentary in Egypt. Long before the Egyptian revolution became front-page news, Lillie Paquette was following Basem and other young activists as they struggled for democratic change in Egypt. And without knowing it, she was documenting the back-story to a revolution that would transform Egypt and the entire region. Lillie Paquette was in Boston this morning. She's screening her documentary We Are Egypt at universities in the United States.

This Day in History

On this day in 44 BC, a handful of Roman senators stabbed Julius Caesar to death.

2,055 years later, we Canadians have learned there are even more painful ways to change government -- elections. Beware the Ides of March, people.

Other segments from today's show:

• On the Ground in Japan
• Hockey Concussions