Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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

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.

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

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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

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 historic adaptation of the life of José Pablo Morales who fought against an exploitative system of payment to day laborers during the reign...

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 Cordillera de Puerto Rico is presented while Gala Hernández and his group, together with Juaniquillo, perform melodies as part of a...

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

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

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...

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

It is the story of a young Puerto Rican government doctor who is assigned to fight schistosomiasis in a rural district and informs Puerto Ricans...

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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

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

A dramatization of the way a group of rural people resolve their issues with an authoritarian town leader.