Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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...

A family relationship drama about a strict father who wants to control his son, who in turn leaves his father's house and moves to the city.

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Tells the story about a boy with a mental handicap. It was conceived as teaching tools to inform parents about the issues that they faced when...

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

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