Yalta, the Twilight of the Big Three

The Yalta Conference of 1945, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met to discuss Europe’s post‑war reorganisation, ultimately led to enmity. For a week in February 1945, the leaders of the three great powers allied against Nazism gathered to discuss the end of the war and the future of the world, making it one of the most important international conferences of all time. While on the ground, Americans, British, and Soviets fought Hitler, the Big Three in the hushed salons of Yalta waged a merciless struggle driven by their differing ambitions and interests, which they sometimes sought to preserve at all costs. Pressures, bluffs, secrets, espionage, and intimidation shaped the conference, and this film, based on the memories of participants and their diaries, reveals the captivating backstage of one of the greatest conferences of the 20th century.