Lessons of Yalta (1985)

View of illuminated streets of European cities, car traffic.

Newsreel from 1945: ruins of residential areas of Berlin.

Panorama of a destroyed city block, empty shells of apartment buildings (top).

Landscapes of the Black Sea coast of Crimea, views of the Livadia Palace (panorama, top).

Inner courtyard of the Livadia Palace, palm trees in the yard.

Newsreel: a military brass band playing.

Churchill's face in the airplane window.

Cameramen are filming.

Churchill being met at the airfield.

Churchill and Molotov V.M. during a meeting at the airfield, walking from the airplane to the car, Churchill shaking hands with US Ambassador Harriman A. Landing of the plane of US President Roosevelt F.D. Churchill talks to Roosevelt at the airfield, who is sitting in a wheelchair.

The chief of the guard of honor walks along the line to report.

Roosevelt's face.

The head of the guard of honor reports to Roosevelt and Churchill, faces of Molotov, Churchill and Roosevelt during the acceptance of the report.

Roosevelt holds his hat to his chest.

Churchill salutes.

Stalin I.V. and those accompanying him at the entrance to the Livadia Palace, Molotov V.M. stands nearby.

Entrance to the Livadia Palace, the doors open, a fireplace is visible.

The interior of the palace, the hall where the meetings of the Yalta Conference were held, a panorama of the round table.

Newsreel from 1945: Churchill enters the palace.

Churchill is helped to take off his coat.

Stalin and Molotov enter the palace, accompanied by military personnel and security.

Stalin and Molotov enter the conference hall.

Stalin greets Churchill and members of the delegations of the participating countries.

A security officer walks along one of the galleries of the palace.

The conference participants sit down at the round table.

Stalin, Gromyko A.A., Roosevelt and members of the delegations at a round table (panorama).

Stalin, Gromyko, Roosevelt, Churchill and members of the delegations during a conference session.

Translator Vladimir Pavlov recalls the course of the conference, Stalin's desire for an alliance with other countries after the war (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1945: Roosevelt sits in a jeep next to the driver in the courtyard of the Livadia Palace.

The jeep starts moving.

Roosevelt's jeep moves along the road along the seashore.

Interview with political observer of the Izvestia newspaper V. Falin about the mood in the USA towards the USSR in 1945 (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1945: Molotov, British Foreign Secretary Eden and US Secretary of State Stettinius sign the final documents of the Yalta Conference.

Molotov congratulates his foreign colleagues after the signing ceremony.

Documents of the Yalta Conference in English and Russian in the file of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archive.

Signatures of the Foreign Ministers of the three powers under one of the documents.

Texts of the documents.

Newsreel from 1945: Churchill delivers a speech at the airport dedicated to the results of the Yalta Conference (synchronously, in English).

Roosevelt delivers a speech from the rostrum of the US Congress on the results of the Yalta Conference (synchronously, in English, voice-over translation).

Congressmen and journalists stand and applaud.

New Yorkers celebrate Victory Day, views of city streets and squares filled with people.

The new US President Truman H. responds to greetings from a moving car.

Churchill greets Londoners from a balcony.

People hug and congratulate each other.

People on Red Square during the celebration of Victory Day on May 9, 1945. Photojournalists take pictures of the participants of the Potsdam Conference in July 1945. Stalin, Truman and Churchill before the first session of the conference.

Stalin talking to Churchill (top).

One of the sessions of the conference.

Stalin during another session.

The cameraman turns the camera handle.

Truman and Stalin go out into the courtyard of the Cecilienhof Palace.

Cameramen and photojournalists are filming.

Stalin, Truman and Churchill are sitting in wicker chairs.

A photograph of Stalin during a break in one of the sessions of the Potsdam Conference, with Stalin next to him is translator V. Berezhkov.

Berezhkov's interview about the attacks of Western politicians on the results of the Yalta Conference (synchronously).

US President Reagan R. walks along the line of American Marines.

Parade of American troops.

View of the tribune of a militaristic rally in Japan.

Posters with a portrait of Hitler.

A speaker speaks at a regular congress of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDP).

Panorama of the press conference hall of the banquet.

Faces of journalists.

Participants in the event applaud.

Torchlight procession of the NPD members. A. Yakovlev's interview on the significance of the Yalta Conference for French television (synchronously).

Photograph of the leaders of the three states participating in the Yalta Conference on the wall of the Livadia Palace hall, part of the hall's interior.

Circular panorama of the Livadia Palace courtyard.

View of the courtyard with palm trees, snow falling (top).

Newsreel from 1945: Stalin, Roosevelt and members of the delegations of the Yalta Conference countries in the courtyard of the Livadia Palace.

Stalin greets Churchill as he approaches, and both sit down in armchairs.

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin sit in armchairs in the courtyard of the Livadia Palace (freeze frame).