Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball uniforms for little league.

A generational conflict is reflected in the old-fashioned ideas of the landowner, who imposes himself as a dominant figure in the political activity...

Adapted from Mexico's "The Forgotten Village". It deals with the fight that develops from the superstitious and ignorant interpretation of a problem...

A young boy becomes intrigued by one of the characters in his village's celebration of its patron saint.

The first documentary produced by the Division of Community Education (DivEdCo) featuring modern and experimental audio techniques with aerial shots...

Field workers in Puerto Rico want to have a night school.

In the community of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, the main character, played by the esteemed comedian José Miguel Agrelot, buys a washing machine...

Educational documentary which extols the different forms of labor, and its importance to Puerto Rico’s progress.

The exploitation of fisherman in Fajardo, Puerto Rico and how the laborers reached their economic independence through operative alliances.

A melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor.

Prize winner, Venice Festival 1956. The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization...

Zoilo Cajigas y Sotomayor is a carver of wooden models of saints. Don Zoilo is one of Puerto Rico's best-known artisans and was 96 years old at the...

A cautionary film about what were thought to be rural superstitions and practices in Puerto Rico.

A family relationship drama about a strict father who wants to control his son, who in turn leaves his father's house and moves to the city.

It tells the story of a slave rebellion on a sugar plantation in the days leading up to the official abolition of slavery on the island on March 22,...

Illustrates the dilemma of a sugarcane worker who has a child out of wedlock without his wife’s knowledge.

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

One of the DivEdCo's films that best depicts the history and evolution of another genre of popular music from the coasts and of African origin: the...

The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.