Julia Reichert

Born June 16, 1946
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Died December 1, 2022 (aged 76)
Yellow Springs, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater Antioch College
Occupation Documentary filmmaker
Years active 1968–2021
Known for Union Maids, Growing Up Female, American Factory, The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, Seeing Red
Spouses
Jim Klein ​(div. 1986)​
Steven Bognar ​(m. 2020)​

Julia Bell Reichert (June 16, 1946 – December 1, 2022) was an American Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, activist, and feminist. She was a co-founder of New Day Films. Reichert's filmmaking career spanned over 50 years as a director and producer of documentaries.

Reichert was a four-time Academy Award-nominated director, for Union Maids (1977), Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (1984), The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (2010) and American Factory (2020, for which she won an Oscar).  

She was a two-time winner of the Primetime Emmy, a two-time nominee of the Peabody Award, and director of two films on the National Film Registry.