Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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 in a domestic dispute.

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

Presents the Spanish classical guitarist Regino Sáinz de la Maza, playing classical pieces such as "Preludio ensueño" by Francisco Tárraga.

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

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.

The story of a couple who wish to marry, but have no money to build a house. A neighbor recommends that they go by the community asking for cooperation, getting everyone to contribute.

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.

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

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.

A couple in love listens to Roque Navarro and his group interpret several romantic melodies.

The film recreates the miracle of the birth of Jesus in a Puerto Rican field. It begins with the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph, the birth of Jesus, and the arrival of the Three Kings.

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

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.