Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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

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...

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...

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

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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

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

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,...

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

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

Short musical film in which young Puerto Ricans of the Tuna of Comerío interpret melodies of the Christmas folklore of Puerto Rico.

Geña, Blas' wife, is dedicated solely to housework by her husband's disposition. When Blas suffers an accident and is hospitalized,...

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 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.

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

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,...

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

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