Julia Reichert’s almost 50-year career is getting a retrospective. A press release confirms the Wexner Center for the Arts has organized “Julia Reichert: 50 Years in Film,” a touring film series that “will celebrate one of the most distinguished bodies of work in American independent film and one of our most accomplished documentarians.” The program will bow May 30 at the Museum of Modern Art and eventually make stops in venues such as UCLA’s Film and Television Archive and Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery of Art.

All of Reichert’s feature films will screen in the retrospective, including her most recent work, “American Factory.” The Sundance award-winner, co-directed by Steven Bognar, is a look at what happened when a Chinese billionaire opened a factory in a shuttered General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio in 2014. It was recently acquired by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and Netflix.

Among the other “50 Years in Film” titles is Reichert’s directorial debut, women’s movement doc “Growing Up Female.” Also screening are Academy Award nominees “Union Maids,” a portrait of three female union organizers, and “Seeing Red,” an exploration of the American Communist Party, as well as the Emmy-winning “A Lion in the House,” the four-hour chronicle of several families’ experiences with cancer treatment over six years.

A co-founder of New Day Films, an independent film distribution co-op, Reichert is also the author of “Doing It Yourself,” a guide on self-distributing indies. The three-time Oscar nominee recently accepted Hot Docs’ Outstanding Achievement Award.

“Julia Reichert: 50 Years in Film” will tour through 2020. A full list of retrospective titles and the as-yet announced tour dates are below.

Full retrospective includes:
GROWING UP FEMALE (1971)
METHADONE: AN AMERICAN WAY OF DEALING (1974)
UNION MAIDS (1976)
SEEING RED: STORIES OF AMERICAN COMMUNISTS (1983)
A LION IN THE HOUSE (2006)
THE LAST TRUCK: CLOSING OF A GM PLANT (2009)
SPARKLE (2012)
MAKING MORNING STAR (2016)
AMERICAN FACTORY (2019)
RAISES NOT ROSES – THE STORY OF THE 9TO5 MOVEMENT (2019)

Tour dates include:
Museum of Modern Art (May-June 2019)
Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, October 2019)
UCLA Film and Television Archive (November 2019)
Cinematheque at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (November-December 2019)
Cinematheque at the Cleveland Institute of Art (November-December 2019)
Northwest Film Center (Portland, January 2020)
Speed Art Museum (Louisville, February 2020)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, February 2020)
Museum of Fine Art (Houston, March 2020)
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center (Silver Spring, Maryland, May 2020)
National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C., May-June 2020)