Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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

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

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,...

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

The story revolves around the sickness of Dona Julia’s daughter Maria. After a bad experience at the local hospital, she seeks cures through...

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...

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...

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

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