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

Brainless John

Brainless John 1959

5.20

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

1959

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

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

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

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

Olas y arenas

Olas y arenas 1968

1

Posthumous homage to Sylvia Rexach, considered one of the best composers of popular Spanish music. Her daughter, Sharon Reily Rexach, plays the musical composition "Olas y Arenas".

1968

El santero

El santero 1956

5.20

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.

1956

Chela

Chela 1965

1

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

1965

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 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

Intolerance

Intolerance 1959

1

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

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

Las manos del hombre

Las manos del hombre 1952

8.00

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

1952

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

Doña Julia

Doña Julia 1955

1

The story revolves around the sickness of Dona Julia’s daughter Maria. After a bad experience at the local hospital, she seeks cures through non-traditional medical care. When the potions that she administers fail to cure her daughter, she is persuaded to return the girl to the hospital where she is properly diagnosed and cured.

1955