Los peloteros

Los peloteros 1951

6.00

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

1951

El puente

El puente 1951

5.00

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

1951

Pueblito de Santiago

Pueblito de Santiago 1970

1

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.

1970

Intolerance

Intolerance 1959

1

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

1959

La noche de don Manuel

La noche de don Manuel 1963

1

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.

1963

Modesta

Modesta 1955

5.00

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.

1955

El secreto

El secreto 1958

1

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

1958

Splendor

Splendor 1961

7.50

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.

1961

Brainless John

Brainless John 1959

5.20

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

1959

La plena

La plena 1966

1

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").

1966

El gallo pelón

El gallo pelón 1961

1

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.

1961

La guardarraya

La guardarraya 1964

1

The location of the dividing line between two farms causes friction between two families.

1964

The One with White Shanks

The One with White Shanks 1955

1

The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding their wives’ advice, individuals join forces in a cooperative so they can sell their crop of tobacco leaves at fair market value.

1955

When Fathers Forget

When Fathers Forget 1957

1

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.

1957

El yugo

El yugo 1959

6.00

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

1959

Nenén of the Moorish Way

Nenén of the Moorish Way 1955

5.50

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

1955

El cacique

El cacique 1959

1

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

1959

Milagro en la montaña

Milagro en la montaña 1961

1

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.

1961

Roots of Happiness

Roots of Happiness 1953

1

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.

1953