Divedco Movies

The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a...

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

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

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

A couple in love listens to Roque Navarro and his group interpret several romantic melodies.

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

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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

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...

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

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...

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,...

Recreates the town meetings which were a staple of the DivEdCo project. True-life residents debate community priorities, in this case the...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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