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.

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

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

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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

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

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

Biographical documentary on the life and work of Pedro Flores, internationally renowned Puerto Rican musician.

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

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

Aimed to educate the people, and especially those who lived in the most vulnerable areas, about important safety measures to be taken before, during,...