Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico Popular Movie

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Antonio Torres Martinó

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roberto Rivera Negrón

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eugenio Navarro

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luz Odilia Font

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eda Cecilia Oliver

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Flavia Lugo

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

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ramón Rivero (Diplo)

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Antonio Torres Martinó

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rafael Benliza

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Antonio Torres Martinó

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antonia Hidalgo

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Everlidis Busútil

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Braulio Castillo

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: José de San Antón

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Antonio Torres Martinó

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

Genre: Documentary

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The Cordillera de Puerto Rico is presented while Gala Hernández and his group, together with Juaniquillo, perform melodies as part of a...

Genre: Documentary

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A man believes all the advertising he hears.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Antonio Torres Martinó