Movie: Progress Island U.S.A.

Top 1 Billed Cast

John Facenda
John Facenda

Narrator

  • HomePage

  • Overview

    The film presents a description of Puerto Rico of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It shows some of what the island had to offer at that time and explains that Puerto Rico is "American in every respect", except for its "360 days of sunshine", due to the results of Operation Bootstrap.

  • Release Date

    1973-01-01

  • Average

    2.3

  • Rating:

    1.1 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English

Recommendations Movies

Trash and Progress
42%

Trash and Progress(en)

2013-07-11

A rookie journalist has returned to the abandoned frontier of Earth with the dream of writing a career-making story about the descendants of those who were left behind. There she finds a decaying society ruled through fear by a mysterious, ageless despot.

Photograph
55%

Photograph(fr)

1895-01-01

A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him. Just as the photographer is about to take the picture, the subject gets up to look at the camera more closely. The frustrated photographer soon becomes quite impatient.

Re-re-repeat
76%

Re-re-repeat(en)

Re-re-repeat A rhythmic dialogue between sound and image: exploring space, corporeal phenomenology and chance outcomes, which alter perceptions of time and memory.

Paris By Night 87: PBN Talent Show
42%

Paris By Night 87: PBN Talent Show(en)

2007-02-09

Paris By Night 87: PBN Talent Show - Finals is a Paris By Night program produced by Thuy Nga that was filmed at the Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California on February 10th, 2007. This is the first Paris By Night's Talent Show. This Talent Show consists of Paris By Night 86 - Semifinal and Paris by Night 87 - Final. After the Semi-Final, there are 7 remaining contestants in the final.

Pennies
71%

Pennies(en)

2006-10-20

The story of Charlotte Brown,a waitress and young single mother who will do anything for her daughter Jenny, and when push comes to shove, she does. With a menacing figure on the other end of the phone and a time limit of two hours,she must raise enough money to ensure that she sees the smiling face of her child again. Charlotte's customers are her only hope. The clock is ticking as we see the desperate young mother dealing with one eccentric customer after the next, displaying her charming vulnerability and inspiring strength through all the chaos. With her feet firmly planted on the ground, Charlotte maintains her focus and attempts to beat the clock and save the day.

Free Land
60%

Free Land(de)

1946-10-18

After World War II, scores of refugees leave in search of a new home. They now stand in the hall of a large mansion, waiting to receive their deeds of ownership for sections of land that the lord of the manor had left behind after he fled. Among them is young Jeruscheit who, during her travels, had to bury one of her own children. Her husband has been declared missing, and up until now she has had little purpose in life. But then she discovers it: to work, to build, and to help others. And maybe someday Jeruscheit will find her family.

The Sands of Dee
56%

The Sands of Dee(en)

1912-02-21

A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day she meets a wily artist painting on the beach, he seduces the young girl and gives her a ring, with the promise of marriage. When the young admiring fellow comes to propose, she proudly announces her engagement to the artist. Shocked he leaves and her parents demand meeting her husband to be. She goes to bring him home, and finds he already has a sophisticated fiancée. Distraught she hurries home, and when her father realizes what she has done, he orders her out of the house. As she wanders despondent along the sea, the young fellow who has found out about her betrayal, immediately goes to see her. Finding she has been disowned by her father, he goes looking for her...

Saint-Ex
30%

Saint-Ex(en)

1996-11-17

Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

American Beauty: Look Closer...
73%

American Beauty: Look Closer...(en)

2000-10-24

A promotional short documentary on the making of the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball.

Rate Me
51%

Rate Me(en)

2015-05-22

A portrait of teen escort, 'Coco'.

Carma with a C
55%

Carma with a C(en)

2022-06-21

An influencer defends her tech CEO girlfriend from the haters on social media, only to discover that her Ms. Right is addicted to more than power.

Watch Me Fly
40%

Watch Me Fly(da)

1996-02-02

A story about friendship and sticking together through tough times. The movie shows how two young girls and their families cope with their differences, how they are brought together and torn apart and how they are changed by the injury of a racing pigeon. But when the girls take it upon themselves to heal the pigeon, its recovery can bring them all hope.

Dear President Obama
75%

Dear President Obama(en)

2016-03-17

During President Obama's terms extreme energy extraction grew faster than anyone could have predicted, putting the 17 million people in America who live within one mile of a new gas or oil rig in harm's way.

Taxi for Two
80%

Taxi for Two(fr)

2012-10-21

The film poetically explores the universe of two eccentric Montreal taxi drivers. Film places the viewer in the back seat of the taxi as Louis and Jamel take us for a ride in their cab from Port au Prince to Algiers, from overseas to the island of Montreal, the protagonists passionately discuss life, love and death. Aesthetically the film uses panoramic image multiplications to complement the magical realism found in the storytelling.