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Mike and Ken interview award-winning documentary filmmakers on their latest projects, their art, and their process
Who really took the photo widely known as “Napalm Girl”? And does it really matter over a half-century later?
In his new Netflix documentary “The Stringer”, Bao Nguyen (“The Greatest Night in Pop”) follows a journalistic team lead by Anglo-American Gary Knight as they seek to show that the real photographer on that day in 1972 in Trang Bang was not the renowned and fêted Pulitzer Prize-winning Nick Ut, of the Saigon AP Bureau, but a “stringer”, Nguyen Thanh Nghe, paid $20 flat and subsequently denied all credit. And Nguyen argues as well that it does matter not only to Nghe and his family, but also to: the Vietnamese people; the Vietnamese diaspora (who had long lionized Ut); to an America that has still not fully dealt with the war; and to the very nature of truth in an era when technology can both clarify and complicate provenance.
You can stream “The Stringer” on Netflix.
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Top Docs: Award-Winning Documentary Filmmakers
Mike and Ken interview award-winning documentary filmmakers on their latest projects, their art, and their process