The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter is a 1980 documentary film and the first movie made by Connie Field, about the American women who went to work during World War II to do "men's jobs.

"[6][7] The film's title refers to "Rosie the Riveter", the cultural icon that represented women who worked the manufacturing plants which produced munitions and material during World War II.

Connie Field got the idea for the film from a California Rosie the Riveter reunion, and, with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other charitable sources, conducted interviews with many hundreds of women who had gone into war work.

The reminiscences are intercut with the realities of the period—old news, films, recruiting trailers, March of Time clips, and pop songs such as "Rosie the Riveter."

The Los Angeles Times called it "warm, engaging and poignant" and went on to say "the film has that Studs Terkel-like ability to discover the extraordinary in seemingly ordinary people.