Video: 'Underground' trailer
(Saturday, April 1, 1995) — Underground, a European black comedy film about an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during World War II, was released today in Yugoslavia.
Directed by Emir Kusturica, the film starred Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic and Slavko Stimac.
Video: 'American Experience - FDR (Franklin Roosevelt) - Part 1/2 (PBS Documentary' (Apr. 1, 1945, at 2:08:59)
(Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945; during World War II) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt attended Easter services today in Warm Springs, Georgia, with a noticeable tremor in his movements. He dropped his prayer book and glasses during the service.
Video: 'Ken Burns - The Civil War: Episode 8 - War Is All Hell (1865) | Ken Burns Documentary' (Apr. 1, 1865, 36:41)
(Saturday, April 1, 1865; during the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War) — Union forces led by Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan routed Confederate soldiers under the command of Maj. Gen. George Pickett today in the Battle of Five Forks in Virginia.
The Union force inflicted over 1,000 casualties on the Confederates and took between 2,400 and 4,000 prisoners while seizing Five Forks, the key to control of the South Side Railroad (sometimes shown as Southside Railroad), a vital Confederate supply line to, and retreat line from, Petersburg.
Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - Cambodia and Laos [8/11]' (Apr. 1, 1975, at 49:25)
(Tuesday, April 1, 1975, about noon ICT; during the Cambodian Civil War, part of the Vietnam War, Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — With Khmer Rouge guerrillas closing in, Cambodian President Lon Nol resigned and departed Pochentong International Airport west of Phnom Penh into exile, spending the rest of his life in the United States.
