I'm Rebecca Lavoie, and this is You Can't Make This Up.

You Can't Make This Up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite Netflix documentaries and films.

On today's episode, we take a closer look at the Netflix documentary film, The Stringer,

The Man Who Took the Photo.

Some photographs just transcend all others.

They capture something.

They represent a story, a moment in time, in a way that other photographs simply don't reach.

Today, we're talking to director, Bao Nguyen.

The shocking photograph of a child severely burned in a napalm strike became one of the most enduring images of the Vietnam War.

Associated press cameraman Nick Utt won fame and major awards for the legendary picture.

But decades later, an AP photo editor made an explosive claim.

A local freelancer actually snapped the picture, but staffers credited the photo to Utt.

Now, a team of investigative reporters returns to Vietnam to find the Stringer and determine

if he really took the historical photograph.

The Netflix documentary film The Stringer, the man who took the photo, follows photojournalist

Gary Knight as he attempts to learn who actually captured the famous Napalm Girl picture.

The hunt for the unidentified photographer will take

him across the globe and put him at odds with a journalistic community deeply protective of Utt's legacy.

Knight enlists a visual forensics team to pinpoint which cameraman in Trang Bang was in position to

snap the picture that altered the way many viewed the war in Vietnam. But it matters who pressed the shutter, not just for one man's legacy,

but for what it says about who gets remembered and who gets erased.

And I'm joined now by director Bao Nguyen.

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