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‘The Stringer’ Review: Who Took the Historic Vietnam War Photo Known as ‘Napalm Girl’? A Riveting Documentary Says the Answer Lies in a Conspiracy
Bao Nguyen's riveting investigative film claims that the legendary photo was deliberately credited to the wrong photographer. He makes his case.
“ The Stringer ” is a documentary mystery about a deadly serious subject: the true authorship of the famous Vietnam War photograph, taken on June 8, 1972, in the town of Trảng Bàng, that showed the aftermath of a napalm attack — a 9-year-old girl named Phan Thį Kim Phúc running, naked, toward the camera, her arms outstretched like broken wings, her mouth open in a scream of agony. She’d been burned all over her body (the shot shows four other children, clothed and running with her), and the photograph, from the moment it went out into the world and was viewed by billions, became known as “ Napalm Girl.” It is one of the most iconic and devastating images of the horror of war ever seen. The filmmakers hand all that material over to a group of forensic experts in Paris, who do a meticulous computer-based analysis, incorporating satellite images, of which figures stood precisely where and when during those crucial few minutes in Trảng Bàng.
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