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‘I Took the Photo’: Stunning Sundance Doc Challenges Authorship of Famous Napalm Girl War Photo

The stunning Sundance documentary "The Stringer" challenges the authorship of the famous Napalm Girl photo from the Vietnam War.

In the film, journalist Gary Knight leads a group of colleagues who set out to unravel the mystery of the photo, test the veracity of Robinson’s confession and his allegation that AP’s chief photographer Horst Faas made the real-time decision to credit Ut that was never challenged – and to find the stringer. Ut went on to win the Pulitzer Prize and accept accolades for five decades for the photo of nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc and her family members running in terror from the napalm bombs of the South Vietnamese army, her clothing and skin burned off. Kim Phúc, center, running down a road naked near Trảng Bàng after a South Vietnam Air Force napalm attack (The Associated Press)The photo’s sheer horror is credited with helping to turn public opinion definitively against the war.

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