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 group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball uniforms for little league.
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.
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.
A melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor.
A historic adaptation of the life of José Pablo Morales who fought against an exploitative system of payment to day laborers during the reign of the Spanish governor General Juan de la Pezuela in mid nineteenth century 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.
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.
The Cordillera de Puerto Rico is presented while Gala Hernández and his group, together with Juaniquillo, perform melodies as part of a traditional Puerto Rican Christmas party.
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.
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").
A dramatization of the way a group of rural people resolve their issues with an authoritarian town leader.
It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them.
Illustrates the dilemma of a sugarcane worker who has a child out of wedlock without his wife’s knowledge.
The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.
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.
Presents general shots of the central mountain range of Puerto Rico.
A cautionary film about what were thought to be rural superstitions and practices in 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.
