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.

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

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

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...

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

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

Posthumous homage to Sylvia Rexach, considered one of the best composers of popular Spanish music. Her daughter, Sharon Reily Rexach, plays the...

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

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...

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

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,...

Documentary on patients of the Instituto Psicopedagógico (Psycho-Pedagogical Institute) of Puerto Rico.

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

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...

Educates communities about tuberculosis prevention and treatment.

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...

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