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...

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.

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 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...

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

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

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,...

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

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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

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

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

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

The role that women should play in the modern-day Puerto Rican family is discussed. The discussion is dramatized by a rural husband and wife involved...

Presents general shots of the central mountain range of Puerto Rico.

The location of the dividing line between two farms causes friction between two families.