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The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo is a fascinating new documentary available on Netflix that painstakingly exposes the unfair practice of Western media in the past of stealing and wrongfully claiming credit for art created—in this case, photographs—by Southeast Asian artists. When the photograph "The Terror of War," also popularly known as "Napalm Girl," was first taken and published in Western newspapers in 1972, it instantly encapsulated the horrific brutality of war, and the Vietnam War in particular, sparking widespread criticism of the US government. In the brilliant and poignant The Stringer, director Bao Nguyen and photojournalist Gary Knight set out to find the freelance photographer, or "stringer," who actually took the photograph, which continues to be wrongly attributed to Nick Ut. The "Napalm Girl" is a world-famous photograph taken during the Vietnam War that continues to express the heartbreaking and devastating effects of wa...