Divedco Movies

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

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,...

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

Details of the life of Juan Ponce de León, founder of the city of San Juan and first governor of Puerto Rico.

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

A generational conflict is reflected in the old-fashioned ideas of the landowner, who imposes himself as a dominant figure in the political activity...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...