Fact-Based Movie Starring Jude Law As FBI Agent Pursuing White Supremacy Group In NW Begins Streaming

A violent period in Northwest history is the subject of the fact-based drama, “The Order”, what stars Jude Law, and which will begin streaming on Tuesday, December 24. In the film, Law plays an FBI agent named Terry Husk, a fictional character said to be inspired by a real former FBI agent who as The Advocate Review reported, lives in Idaho, not far from the former site of the Aryan Nations, a neo-Nazi white supremacist group.

Based on a non-fiction book called “The Silent Brotherhood,” “The Order” tells the story of a domestic terrorist group known as The Order, which held anti-Semitic, white beliefs, robbed banks to finance its criminal activities, and sought to overthrow the United States government. Some followers of The Order were also responsible for the murder of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg in 1984.

The film is directed by an Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzelalso stars Nicholas Hoult when the leader of the order, Robert Jay Matthews, a white supremacist who settled in Washington, wanted to recruit white families to come to the Northwest and who was a fan of “The Turner Diaries,” a racist novel written by William Luther Pierce, a white nationalist who taught physics at Oregon State University in the early 1960s.

An FBI hunt for Matthews and other members of the Order intensified after Matthews wounded an FBI agent during a confrontation at a Portland motel in November 1984. “in a shootout,” as a historylink.org The article says, “Mathews shot an agent in the leg and was wounded in the right hand, but managed to escape on foot.”

Not long after, in early December 1984, FBI agents busted Matthews and other fugitives on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. “After a 36-hour standoff, Mathews died in a fiery inferno as the agents’ fired lighting flares onto the roof of his hideout,” which UPI reported.

“The Order”, which was shot on location in Canada, is plays theatrically at the Regal Fox Tower; it starts streaming on Amazon Prime video Tuesday 24 December