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...

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,...

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

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

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 effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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

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

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

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

It is the story of a young Puerto Rican government doctor who is assigned to fight schistosomiasis in a rural district and informs Puerto Ricans...

The story of a couple who wish to marry, but have no money to build a house. A neighbor recommends that they go by the community asking for...

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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...

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