Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The film recreates the miracle of the birth of Jesus in a Puerto Rican field. It begins with the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph, the birth of Jesus,...

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...