World War II left a handful of towering figures either triumphant or destroyed within months of each other, and this film tracks what victory and defeat actually cost them. Franklin Roosevelt dies before he can see the peace he shaped at Yalta. Winston Churchill, six weeks after V-E Day, is voted out of office by a country that wanted rebuilding more than it wanted a wartime leader. Hitler's suicide in the Berlin bunker closes one story while Harry Truman's sudden elevation to the presidency, and his decision to use the atomic bomb, opens another. The film also follows Gandhi's postwar assassination as a reminder that the war's aftershocks reached well beyond the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific. Archival footage and photographs carry the narration through Yalta, Downing Street, the bunker, and the White House, using each leader's personal fate as a lens on how the war redrew power on every side. It is one episode of the Titans of the 20th Century series.