Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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,...

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

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

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

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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...

Educates communities about tuberculosis prevention and treatment.

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

José Raúl Ramírez explains the way an electrical organ works and – more than forty years before he recorded his work...

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

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

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...

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