Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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

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,...

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

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

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

An artistic short on the floral beauty of Puerto Rico set to folk music.

The first documentary produced by the Division of Community Education (DivEdCo) featuring modern and experimental audio techniques with aerial shots...

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.

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...

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

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

The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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