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- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsJim BrownGeorge KennedyFredric MarchRacial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south....tick...tick...tick... (1970, January 9th)
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsCalvin LockhartJanet MacLachlanJeff BridgesAn all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transferred there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.Halls of Anger (1970, April 29th)
- DirectorHal AshbyStarsBeau BridgesLee GrantDiana SandsNaïve 29-year-old Elgar Enders buys a building in a black Brooklyn ghetto to evict the tenants and upgrade it. But instead, he grows fond of the tenants and falls in love with a mixed-race girl while his wealthy parents disapprove.The Landlord (1970, May 20th)
- DirectorMelvin Van PeeblesStarsGodfrey CambridgeEstelle ParsonsHoward CaineJeff Gerber, a racist white man, wakes up one morning to discover that he has become black.The Watermelon Man (1970, May 27th)
- DirectorLaurence MerrickStarsDes RobertsJohn King IIILinda JacksonWhen an African-American biker gang is tricked into believing that a white biker gang is planning a war, all hell breaks loose.Black Angels (1970, October 14th)
- DirectorJack HillStarsRoberta CollinsPam GrierJudith BrownBeautiful female prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with reluctant help from two male fruit vendors.The Big Doll House (1971, April 30th)
- DirectorRobert GoodwinStarsBernie CaseyBarbara ORichard ElkinsYoung black man joins a black nationalist group, which is betrayed by a turncoat.Black Chariot (1971, June) *lost
- DirectorJohn EvansStarsWinston ThrashPamela DoneganEllen BrownA poet seeks revenge on the criminal responsible for the death of his mother.Speed Up Time (1971, July 16th)
- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsJudith BrownRoberta CollinsJennifer GanAmerican women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.Women In Cages (1971, October 20th)
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsSidney PoitierBarbara McNairGerald S. O'LoughlinIn San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.The Organization (1971, October 20th)
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsBrenda SykesJohn NealsonMaia DanzigerSheila, an affluent black teenager, begins dating working class white teen Wayne, and asks him for help to sell a kilo of marijuana.Honky (1971, November 26th)
- DirectorRalph BakshiStarsSkip HinnantRosetta LeNoireJohn McCurryIn the late 1960s, a pretentious, womanizing young cat drops out of college, starts a riot in Harlem, hits the road with an ex-girlfriend and gets mixed up with domestic terrorists.Fritz The Cat (1972, January 25th)
- DirectorGordon HesslerStarsRichard RoundtreeChuck ConnorsMarie-José NatA Russian spy penetrates into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon to try to kill a Soviet defector under asylum there.Embassy (1972, February)
- DirectorStig BjörkmanStarsDiana SandsDirk BenedictMinnie GentryGeorgia, an African-American singer, travels to the Swedish city of Stockholm for a performance. There, she meets an American deserter and soon they have fallen in love. But Georgia's friend and assistant, Alberta, warns her to stick to her own kind.Georgia, Georgia (1972, March 10th)
- DirectorsSidney PoitierJoseph SargentStarsSidney PoitierHarry BelafonteRuby DeeA wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.Buck and the Preacher (1972, March 17th)
- DirectorChristopher St. JohnStarsChristopher St. JohnPaula KellyFlorence St. PeterA D.C. black cop is pushed over the edge when he is passed over for a promotion, leading him on a violent personal crusade against criminals punctuated by feverish psychedelic dream visions.Top of the Heap (1972, June 2nd)
- DirectorDon SchainStarsJ. Herbert Kerr Jr.Lana WoodCheri CaffaroRacial tensions arise when a black lawyer runs for mayor of a racially divided town.A Place Called Today (1972, June 15th)
- DirectorJoe ViolaStarsCarmen ArgenzianoAndrea CaganMargaret MarkovHot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.The Hot Box (1972, June 23rd)
- DirectorMark WarrenStarsGodfrey CambridgeRaymond St. JacquesPeter De AndaSequel to Cotton comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972, June 29th)
- DirectorRobert J. EmeryStarsPaul ElliotGabe LewisJim CoursarA group of hippies who live together in a communal apartment are arrested during a peace demonstration. Upon their release, they return home to discuss plans for another demonstration. That evening in a nightclub, the hippies watch as the mother of a young patron, Donna, arrives to take her home, in an effort to remove her from bad company. Sonny, one of the hippie group, passes Donna a note with the address of the communal apartment. Later at the apartment, a young woman experiences a bad LSD trip in which she "gives birth" to a huge egg. Donna arrives and is introduced to LSD during a musical ritual called "Om Pax Om." The next morning the hippies sell newspapers on a street corner. That evening Sonny and Donna go walking and encounter a gangster drug dealer and his friends, who proceed to beat up Sonny for refusing to become a dealer. The next day, after the second peace demonstration, the pushers wait in the alley for Sonny, and when he appears, they shoot at him but accidentally hit Donna instead. The group conducts a solemn procession through the streets carrying Donna's body.Ghetto Freaks (1972, June) *re-marketed as blax, c:1970
- DirectorLee FrostStarsRoosevelt GrierRay MillandDon MarshallDoctors are forced to transplant the head of terminally ill, arthritic racist surgeon Maxwell Kirshner onto the body of African American Death Row inmate Jack Moss because there is no other donor.The Thing with Two Heads (1972, July 19th)
- DirectorLarry CohenStarsYaphet KottoAndrew DugganJoyce Van PattenWhen a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple having marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret problem.Bone (1972, July)
- DirectorJack HillStarsPam GrierAnitra FordCandice RomanBlossom (Pam Grier) and Django (Sid Haig) are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.The Big Bird Cage (1972, July)
- DirectorJoy N. Houck Jr.StarsMicky DolenzJames RalstonMichael AnthonyIn New Orleans, a relationship between a black man and a white girl leads to a string of murders.The Night of the Strangler (1972, October 1st)
- DirectorRobert CulpStarsBill CosbyRobert CulpTa-Ronce AllenTwo Los Angeles private eyes follow a missing woman to her bank loot.Hickey and Boggs (1972, October 4th)