Netflix has set November 28th as the release date for The Stringer: The Man Who Took The Photo, the new documentary feature film from director Bao Nguyen with production partners XRM Media and collaboration and reporting from The VII Foundation. The film first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2025.
Dubbed as one of the “most reviewed films in the festival’s history,” the film tells the story of a former Saigon photo editor’s confession, which subsequently ignites a two-year investigation into the hidden history behind one of the Vietnam War’s most iconic images, The Terror of War (“Napalm Girl”). Acclaimed war photographer Gary Knight and journalists Fiona Turner, Terri Lichstein, and Lê Vân set out to uncover the truth and seek justice for a man known only as “the