The fact-based film, starring Jude Law as an FBI agent pursuing a white supremacist group in the Northwest, begins streaming

A violent period in Northwest history is the subject of the fact-based drama The Order, which stars Jude Law and begins streaming on Tuesday, December 24th. In the film, Law plays an FBI agent named Terry Husk, a fictional character who was reportedly inspired by a real-life former FBI agent who, as the Spokesman-Review reported, lives in Idaho, not far from the Aryan Nations’ former location , a neo-Nazi white supremacist group.

Based on a non-fiction book titled “The Silent Brotherhood,” “The Order” tells the story of a domestic terrorist group called The Order that held anti-Semitic, white supremacist beliefs, robbed banks to finance their criminal activities, and attempted to do so in the US -overthrow the government. Some followers of the order were also responsible for the murder of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg in 1984.

The film, directed by Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, also stars Nicholas Hoult as the leader of the Order and Robert Jay Matthews, a white supremacist who settled in Washington, sought to recruit white families to the Northwest and a fan of “The Turner Diaries.” , a racist novel by William Luther Pierce, a white nationalist who taught physics at Oregon State University in the early 1960s.

The FBI’s manhunt for Matthews and other Order members intensified after Matthews injured an FBI agent during a confrontation at a Portland motel in November 1984. “During a shootout,” says a Historylink.org article, “Mathews shot one of the agents. The agent was wounded in the leg and wounded in the right hand, but was able to escape on foot.”

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

“The Order,” filmed on location in Canada, is Theater performance at the Regal Fox Tower; it starts streaming more Amazon Prime Video on Tuesday, December 24th.