Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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 ti...

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

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

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, 1...

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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

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.

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

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

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 pl...

Presents general shots of the central mountain range of Puerto Rico.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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