Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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,...

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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...

It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them.

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