Netflix’s The Stringer questions the story behind Vietnam’s most famous photo.

You know the image so well even a few words can conjure it in your mind: A 9-year-old girl, naked, runs down the middle of the road, her face contorted in pain, arms outstretched. The photograph, taken outside the Vietnamese village of Trang Bang in 1972, changed the course of the Vietnam War and, according to some of the subjects in Bao Nguyen’s documentary The Stringer , permanently altered the way we understand war itself. When Zach Cregger, the writer-director of Weapons , was searching for a way to embody the trauma left when children fall victim to inexplicable violence, he knew just what to evoke. As the movie’s third graders slip out of their parents’ houses in the middle of the night, in the grip of forces they will never understand, he writes in the film’s script, “they run