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

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

genus: Drama

cast: Luz Odilia Font

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)

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 man believes all the advertising he hears.

genus: Comedy

cast: Antonio Torres Martinó

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Antonio Torres Martinó

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...

genus: Documentary

cast: Thomas Chalmers

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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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

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

genus: Drama

cast: José Miguel Agrelot

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

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

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

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

genus: Drama

cast: Braulio Castillo

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

genus: Drama

cast: Frank Arredondo

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

genus: Drama

cast: José de San Antón

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Antonio Torres Martinó

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

genus: Documentary

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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...

genus: Documentary

cast: Antonio Torres Martinó

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

genus: Drama

cast: Rafael Benliza