Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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

Posthumous homage to Sylvia Rexach, considered one of the best composers of popular Spanish music. Her daughter, Sharon Reily Rexach, plays the...

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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...

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

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...

Documentary on patients of the Instituto Psicopedagógico (Psycho-Pedagogical Institute) of Puerto Rico.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...