From Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico Studios

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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

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.

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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,...

Posthumous homage to Sylvia Rexach, considered one of the best composers of popular Spanish music. Her daughter, Sharon Reily Rexach, plays the...

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

A historic adaptation of the life of José Pablo Morales who fought against an exploitative system of payment to day laborers during the reign...

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