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

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

genus: Comedy

cast: Antonio Torres Martinó

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Flavia Lugo

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

genus: Drama

cast: Eda Cecilia Oliver

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

genus: Documentary

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

genus: Drama

cast: Antonia Hidalgo

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

genus: Drama

cast: Ramón Rivero (Diplo)

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

genus: Drama

cast: Rafael Benliza

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

genus: Documentary

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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...

genus: Documentary

cast: Antonio Torres Martinó

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

genus: Drama

cast: Luz Odilia Font

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.

genus: Drama

cast: Everlidis Busútil

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

genus: Drama

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

genus: Drama

cast: Frank Arredondo

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,...

genus: Drama

cast: Eugenio Navarro

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Antonio Torres Martinó

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Benjamín Morales

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

genus: Drama

cast: Héctor Pagán

The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding...

genus: Drama

cast: Antonio Torres Martinó

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

genus: Drama

cast: Braulio Castillo