From Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico Studios

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

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

Adapted from Mexico's "The Forgotten Village". It deals with the fight that develops from the superstitious and ignorant interpretation of a problem...

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

A young boy becomes intrigued by one of the characters in his village's celebration of its patron saint.

Prize winner, Venice Festival 1956. The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization...

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

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

A historic adaptation of the life of José Pablo Morales who fought against an exploitative system of payment to day laborers during the reign...

The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding...

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...

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,...

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

This film did not make it past the editing process in 1953. It was released four decades later in 1993. Although specialists do not agree on the...

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...

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

A dramatization of the way a group of rural people resolve their issues with an authoritarian town leader.

Posthumous homage to Sylvia Rexach, considered one of the best composers of popular Spanish music. Her daughter, Sharon Reily Rexach, plays the...

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...

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