Fighting Mad [a.k.a. Death Force] (1978)

Starring:

• James Iglehart
• Leon Isaac Kennedy
• Jayne Kennedy
• Carmen Argenziano
• James Monroe Iglehart
• Joe Mari Avellana
• Joonee Gamboa
• Leo Martinez
• Cathy Sabino

Storyline
Tossed out to sea and left for dead by two friends, Doug Russell (James Inglehart) washes ashore on a remote island where two Japanese World War II soldiers reside. While the soldiers nurse Russell back to health, they teach him the way of the samurai. Meanwhile in Los Angeles, his former friends Morelli (Carmen Argenziano), and McGee (Leon Isaac Kennedy) wreak havoc in the city on rival gang members to control territory and drugs. Russell's wife Maria (Jayne Kennedy), mourns the death of her husband, after being notified by McGee that Doug died in an accident on the way home. After spending several months on the island, Russell returns home to seek revenge on the men that left him for dead and is terrorizing his wife and city.

The Black Klansman [a.k.a. I Crossed the Color Line] (1966)

Starring:

• Richard Gilden
• Max Julien
• James McEachin
• Harry Lovejoy
• Rima Kutner

Storyline
This melodrama exploits racial tensions with the tale of a light-skinned African-American who impersonates a caucasian and joins the notorious Ku Klux Klan to get revenge on the bigots who bombed a church and killed his daughter. Soon after joining, the vengeful father begins having sex with the clan leader's daughter. 

Black Jesus (1968)

Starring:

• Woody Strode
• Jean Servais
• Franco Citti
• Pier Paolo Capponi
• Stephen Forsyth

IMDB.com
It's funny that one of the alternate titles for this film is "Super Brother"! "Super Brother"?! I guess they must have been referring to the iconic super-athlete-turned-actor Woody Strode and trying to sell this brilliant, Pontecorvo-esque Battle-of-Algiers-Queimada-Burn-like 1968 anti-colonialist political Italian film to a blaxploitation/spaghetti-Western/action-film crowd! Zurlini's film is definitely hardcore, violent, and has some action, but it is anything but blaxploitation; even with all its flaws it's one of the fantastic achievements of the politically committed 'Marxist' cinema of the period, at the very least, on the level of Pontecorvo's much more widely seen "Burn," starring Marlon Brando. Snobs and perfectionists may disagree with that assessment but real film fans know that imperfect, flawed films are often far preferable in every way to films that play by the rules and criterion set-up by bozo mainstream critics....

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