Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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

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,...

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

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

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

Tells the story about a boy with a mental handicap. It was conceived as teaching tools to inform parents about the issues that they faced when...

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

The story of a couple who wish to marry, but have no money to build a house. A neighbor recommends that they go by the community asking for...

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

Details of the life of Juan Ponce de León, founder of the city of San Juan and first governor of Puerto Rico.

The story revolves around the sickness of Dona Julia’s daughter Maria. After a bad experience at the local hospital, she seeks cures through...

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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

This film did not make it past the editing process in 1953. It was released four decades later in 1993. Although specialists do not agree on the...

Dramatizes the case of a family in which the father respects and loves his wife and children, permitting each to develop as an individual, and...

Meant to inform rural communities about the legacy of the Taínos, the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico, or Borikén, as they called...

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.

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