Natchez

Plot

Filmmaker Suzannah Herbert takes 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. With an unflinching lens, the film captures the debates, memories, and tensions that are building toward a reckoning.

About Natchez

Natchez is a 2025 American documentary film, directed and produced by Suzannah Herbert. It explores Natchez, Mississippi, which relies on antebellum tourism to survive, reckoning with the past, an uncertain future, and what it owes to descendants of slavery. It had its world premiere at Tribeca Festival on June 9, 2025, where it won Best Documentary Feature. It was released on January 30, 2026, by Oscilloscope.

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