Search For The Afghan Girl revisits a famous photograph that appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine in June 1985. Journalist Steve McCurry photographed a 12-year-old Afghan girl named Sharbat Gula when she was a refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. She became known as "the Afghan girl" and her image, with her haunting green eyes, became the symbol of the 1980s Afghan conflict and the worldwide refugee situation. Nearly 20 years after the photo was taken, McCurry set out to find her. This documentary travels with the journalist on his search which began unsuccessfully during the 1990s. In January 2002, he returned to the Nasir Bagh refugee camp where he found a way to get word to Gula. McCurry met women who identified themselves as the girl in the photo and men who claimed Gula was their wife. McCurry, though, discovered none of them were "the Afghan girl."MORE[EDIT]
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