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Browse 63 movies from Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico
A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball uniforms for little league.
May 1951
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.
Jan 1961
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.
Aug 1956
Field workers in Puerto Rico want to have a night school.
Jan 1952
The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.
Jan 1951
It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them.
Jan 1965
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.
Jan 1963
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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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.
Jan 1956
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.
A melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor.
Jan 1959
A cautionary film about what were thought to be rural superstitions and practices in Puerto Rico.
Jan 1964
The exploitation of fisherman in Fajardo, Puerto Rico and how the laborers reached their economic independence through operative alliances.
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
Educates communities about tuberculosis prevention and treatment.
A man believes all the advertising he hears.
Dec 1959
The location of the dividing line between two farms causes friction between two families.
Documentary about the annual athletics event held in Coamo, with the participation of the world's best long-distance athletes.
Jan 1971
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.
Jan 1955
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.
Jan 1957