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Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico

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Browse 63 movies from Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico

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Los peloteros poster
Movie

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

Los peloteros

May 1951

Splendor poster
Movie

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, 1873.

Splendor

Jan 1961

Modesta poster
Movie

The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husbands to demand their rights in a domestic context.

Modesta

Aug 1956

A Voice on the Mountain poster
Movie

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

A Voice on the Mountain

Jan 1952

El puente poster
Movie

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

El puente

Jan 1951

Chela poster
Movie

It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them.

Chela

Jan 1965

La noche de don Manuel poster
Movie

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

La noche de don Manuel

Jan 1963

Pueblito de Santiago poster
Movie

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.

Pueblito de Santiago

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Ignacio poster
Movie

Recreates the town meetings which were a staple of the DivEdCo project. True-life residents debate community priorities, in this case the advisability of building parks and roads before dealing with the severe health issues caused by the town’s water supply. Afflicted by personal tragedy, Ignacio, the common man, finds the courage to challenge the reigning leadership.

Ignacio

Jan 1956

El gallo pelón poster
Movie

In the community of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, the main character, played by the esteemed comedian José Miguel Agrelot, buys a washing machine for his wife. However, the town has no electrical power. The movie’s depiction of the jíbaro as naive and comical created a rift among the DivEdCo personnel, especially its community organizers. It was censored by the government and shelved for many years.

El gallo pelón

Jan 1961

Intolerance poster
Movie

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

Intolerance

Jan 1959

The Jug poster
Movie

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

The Jug

Jan 1964

El yugo poster
Movie

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

El yugo

Jan 1959

La plena poster
Movie

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").

La plena

Jan 1966

Hope poster
Movie

Educates communities about tuberculosis prevention and treatment.

Hope

Jan 1964

Brainless John poster
Movie

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

Brainless John

Dec 1959

La guardarraya poster
Movie

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

La guardarraya

Jan 1964

Maratón San Blas poster
Movie

Documentary about the annual athletics event held in Coamo, with the participation of the world's best long-distance athletes.

Maratón San Blas

Jan 1971

The One with White Shanks poster
Movie

The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding their wives’ advice, individuals join forces in a cooperative so they can sell their crop of tobacco leaves at fair market value.

The One with White Shanks

Jan 1955

When Fathers Forget poster
Movie

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.

When Fathers Forget

Jan 1957

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