Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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,...

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.

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

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...

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...

The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.

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

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

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

The film recreates the miracle of the birth of Jesus in a Puerto Rican field. It begins with the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph, the birth of Jesus,...

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

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

The story of a couple who wish to marry, but have no money to build a house. A neighbor recommends that they go by the community asking for...

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...

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

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...