Divedco Movies

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

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

Recreates the town meetings which were a staple of the DivEdCo project. True-life residents debate community priorities, in this case the advisability...

This film did not make it past the editing process in 1953. It was released four decades later in 1993. Although specialists do not agree on the reaso...

Meant to inform rural communities about the legacy of the Taínos, the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico, or Borikén, as they called the island.

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...

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

Short musical film in which young Puerto Ricans of the Tuna of Comerío interpret melodies of the Christmas folklore of Puerto Rico.

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

Geña, Blas' wife, is dedicated solely to housework by her husband's disposition. When Blas suffers an accident and is hospitalized, Geña takes over th...

José Raúl Ramírez explains the way an electrical organ works and – more than forty years before he recorded his work – plays a selection of "danzas" o...

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.

Documentary about the annual athletics event held in Coamo, with the participation of the world's best long-distance athletes.

Documentary on patients of the Instituto Psicopedagógico (Psycho-Pedagogical Institute) of Puerto Rico.

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 ti...

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, an...

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

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

The story of a couple who wish to marry, but have no money to build a house. A neighbor recommends that they go by the community asking for cooperatio...