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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
The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.
Jan 1951
Illustrates the dilemma of a sugarcane worker who has a child out of wedlock without his wife’s knowledge.
Jan 1958
A melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor.
Jan 1959
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
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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The exploitation of fisherman in Fajardo, Puerto Rico and how the laborers reached their economic independence through operative alliances.
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
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
The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.
Jan 1970
The location of the dividing line between two farms causes friction between two families.
Jan 1964
A man believes all the advertising he hears.
Dec 1959
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
It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them.
Jan 1965
A dramatization of the way a group of rural people resolve their issues with an authoritarian town leader.
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
Documentary about the annual athletics event held in Coamo, with the participation of the world's best long-distance athletes.
Jan 1971
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 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.
Jan 1961