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

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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.

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

A cautionary film about what were thought to be rural superstitions and practices in 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,...

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

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.

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

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