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Browse 63 movies from Divedco
A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball uniforms for little league.
May 1951
The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.
Jan 1951
The exploitation of fisherman in Fajardo, Puerto Rico and how the laborers reached their economic independence through operative alliances.
Jan 1959
Illustrates the dilemma of a sugarcane worker who has a child out of wedlock without his wife’s knowledge.
Jan 1958
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.
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A melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor.
The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.
Jan 1970
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.
Dec 1956
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 contrasts this family with one where discord and hostility prevail.
Jan 1953
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 plena. It presents sequences of interpreters of those rhythms in Ponce, in the dances of the coastal areas, and the fusion of popular and refined genres in presentations by Ballets de San Juan of the ballet-plena by Amaury Veray, "Cuando las mujeres" ("When the Women").
Jan 1966
A man believes all the advertising he hears.
Dec 1959
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".
Jan 1968
The location of the dividing line between two farms causes friction between two families.
Jan 1964
Field workers in Puerto Rico want to have a night school.
Jan 1952
The story revolves around the sickness of Dona Julia’s daughter Maria. After a bad experience at the local hospital, she seeks cures through non-traditional medical care. When the potions that she administers fail to cure her daughter, she is persuaded to return the girl to the hospital where she is properly diagnosed and cured.
Jan 1955
The Cordillera de Puerto Rico is presented while Gala Hernández and his group, together with Juaniquillo, perform melodies as part of a traditional Puerto Rican Christmas party.
The first documentary produced by the Division of Community Education (DivEdCo) featuring modern and experimental audio techniques with aerial shots of Puerto Rico showing its topography, educationally inserting the island within a world-wide historical context and highlighting its agricultural and social landscape.
Jan 1949
Tells the story about a boy with a mental handicap. It was conceived as teaching tools to inform parents about the issues that they faced when confronted with the health and well-being of their children and of their right to social services.
Jan 1965
A dramatization of the way a group of rural people resolve their issues with an authoritarian town leader.