Divedco

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 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.

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

Educational documentary which extols the different forms of labor, and its importance to Puerto Rico’s progress.

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.

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.

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.

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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.

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

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.

Prize winner, Venice Festival 1956. 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.

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

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

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.

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.