Natchez
Opens February 20, 2026
A sharp look at the American South's unreconciled history through a Mississippi town that mixes antebellum tourism with a community deeply divided over its past.
After generations of showcasing its antebellum homes and hoop-skirted docents, Natchez, Mississippi, is now reckoning with a romanticized past, an uncertain future and the debt it owes to the descendants of slavery. A cinematic portrait of a tourist town at a crossroads, this documentary follows an array of historic homeowners, activists and tour guides as they tell their versions of the past, and clash over who gets to tell America’s story.
- Director: Suzannah Herbert
- Country: USA
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 86 min.
- Producer: Darcy McKinnon, Suzannah Herbert
- Cinematographers: Pablo Proenza
- Editors: Noah Collier
- Music: James Newsberry
- Awards: Tribeca 2025 (Best Documentary Feature)
- Language: English
- US Distributor: Oscilloscope Laboratories
- International Sales: Cinephil