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.

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

An artistic short on the floral beauty of Puerto Rico set to folk music.

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