Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker who has made a great many documentaries since the late 1960s so that the stories of average people become part of history. Her films allow under-represented people and communities to tell their own stories in their own words because it can be argued that actions become history only when they are told, documented, and then screened, especially on film or TV. Reichert's films include GROWING UP FEMALE (1971), METHADONE: AN AMERICAN WAY OF DEALING (1974), UNION MAIDS (1976), SEEING RED (1983), EMMA AND ELVIS (1992), THE DREAM CATCHER (1999), THIS TRAIN (2001), GRAVEL (2003), THE NIGHTOWLS OF COVENTRY and WELCOME TO WARREN (2004), A LION IN THE HOUSE (2006), and THE LAST TRUCK: CLOSING OF A GM PLANT (2009).  Nominated for Documentary (Features) 1977: UNION MAIDS - Producer (w. James Klein & Miles Mogulescu)  Nominated for Documentary (Features) 1983: SEEING RED: STORIES OF AMERICAN COMMUNISTS - Producer (w. James Klein)  Nominated for Documentary (Short Subjects) 2009: THE LAST TRUCK: CLOSING OF A GM PLANT - Producer (w. Steven Bognar) 3 nominations