A new documentary raises questions about who really took the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1972 photo of a naked girl and other children screaming and running as they fled a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War .

The credit for the image, titled The Terror of War and known colloquially as the “Napalm Girl” photo, has always gone to the Associated Press staff photographer Nick Ut. The Stringer , out on Netflix Nov. 28, presents another argument. In the documentary, journalists and investigators say that based on news reel footage of the road in Trảng Bàng, where the photo was taken on June 8, 1972, a stringer named Nguyễn Thành Nghệ took the iconic photo of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, not Ut.

“Nick Ut came with me on that assignment but he didn’t take that photo,” Nghệ says in the doc.

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