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

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....

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

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

The location of the dividing line between two farms causes friction between two families....

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....

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

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

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

Prize winner, Venice Festival 1956. The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husband...

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 time of the filming. The film shows the elaborate process behind his craftsmanship....

The film recreates the miracle of the birth of Jesus in a Puerto Rican field. It begins with the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph, the birth of Jesus, and the arrival of the Three Kings....

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....

Educational documentary which extols the different forms of labor, and its importance to Puerto Rico’s progress....

Posthumous homage to Sylvia Rexach, considered one of the best composers of popular Spanish music. Her daughter, Sharon Reily Rexach, plays the musical composition "Olas y Arenas"....

Presents general shots of the central mountain range of Puerto Rico....

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

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

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