Film Unit Of The Division Of Community Education Puerto Rico Movies

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...

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

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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

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

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

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,...

An artistic short on the floral beauty of Puerto Rico set to folk music.

Meant to inform rural communities about the legacy of the Taínos, the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico, or Borikén, as they called...

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

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

In the community of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, the main character, played by the esteemed comedian José Miguel Agrelot, buys a washing machine...

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

Tells the story about a boy with a mental handicap. It was conceived as teaching tools to inform parents about the issues that they faced when...

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...

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

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,...

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

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