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...

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,...

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

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

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...

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

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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

A couple in love listens to Roque Navarro and his group interpret several romantic melodies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Documentary about the annual athletics event held in Coamo, with the participation of the world's best long-distance athletes.