A look at Puerto Rico and its cinema through films, documentaries, and commercials from the early twentieth century to the emerging cinema of today. Visual and narrative strategies portray fragments of Puerto Rico's general history and, in turn, answers the questions of who, when, and for whom have films been made in Puerto Rico and the resources that are available to do it.

The Hurricane Maria represented a historic event for the island of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican spi...
Documentary on the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women during the 1950s and '60s.

A musical look at the invaluable contribution made by women to Puerto Rican music.

Hurricane María abated, the news crews packed up and left Puerto Rico, and the interest of the inter...

Isla chatarra describes the phenomenon of the ubiquity of automobiles in Puerto Rico. The island mea...

“El apagón: Aquí vive gente” is a 23-minute film that explores the socio-economic challenges in Pue...

The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during th...
Carmen accompanies a group of women who must travel from the island of Vieques to San Juan, capital ...

The story of the basketball players that represented Puerto Rico at the San Juan's 1979 Pan Am Games...
A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, hundreds of artists gathered to pay honor to the work of Puerto Rican arti...

Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a ...
How fair is it for the government to control its citizens? Four Puerto Ricans confront their past wh...

Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their...

Puerto Rico, the last relic of colonization in the western hemisphere, has been a dependent territor...

Explore the 500-year history of the city of San Juan, from the move from Caparra to the different in...

At Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, Eliana Nossa studies the ionosphere. This short films tells t...

Alessandra Pacini, solar physicist and mother of two, has dedicated her life to researching our sun ...

Strong Puerto Rican women forced to flee the island after Hurricane Maria have bonded like family in...