Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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

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

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 man believes all the advertising he hears.

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.

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...

The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.