Movies: Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico

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

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

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, 1873....

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....

Documentary about the annual athletics event held in Coamo, with the participation of the world's best long-distance athletes....

Meant to inform rural communities about the legacy of the Taínos, the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico, or Borikén, as they called the island....

A man believes all the advertising he hears....

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 contrasts this family with one where discord and hostility prevail....

The first documentary produced by the Division of Community Education (DivEdCo) featuring modern and experimental audio techniques with aerial shots of Puerto Rico showing its topography, educationally inserting the island within a world-wide histori...

The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding their wives’ advice, individuals join forces in a cooperative so they can sell their crop of tobacco ...

An artistic short on the floral beauty of Puerto Rico set to folk music....

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

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

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 plena. It presents sequences of interpreters of those rhythms in Ponce, in the dances of the coastal a...

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child....

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 reason, it's likely that the movie's bitter tone and deviation from the dominant, uplifting DivEdCo narra...

Documentary on the town of Cabo Rojo, proving relevant data on its foundation and the different social and economic activities in which it developed....

Biographical documentary on the life and work of Pedro Flores, internationally renowned Puerto Rican musician....

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