Richard Butler

Richard Butler

Born: February 23, 1918
Died: September 8, 2004
in Colorado, USA
Richard Girnt Butler was an American engineer and white supremacist. After dedicating himself to the Christian Identity movement, a racialist offshoot of British Israelism, Butler founded the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations and would become the "spiritual godfather" to the white supremacist movement, in which he was a leading figure.

Movies for Richard Butler...

An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th
Title: An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th
Character: Self – Aryan Nations Leader (archive footage)
Released: April 16, 2024
Type: Movie
This documentary looks at the surge in political violence through the story of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, showing the roots of anti-government sentiment and its reverberations today, along with the emotionally charged warnings of those who suffered tragic losses in the deadliest homegrown attack in U.S. history.
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Oklahoma City
Title: Oklahoma City
Character: Self - Aryan Nations Founder (archive footage)
Released: January 21, 2017
Type: Movie
The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. This documentary explores how a series of deadly encounters between American citizens and federal law enforcement—including the standoffs at Ruby Ridge and Waco—led to it.
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White Terror
Title: White Terror
Character: Himself, pastor of The Church of Jesus Christ-Christian
Released: August 5, 2005
Type: Movie
A video about Neo-Nazis originating in Sweden provides the starting point of an investigation of extremists' networks in Europe, Russia, and North America. Their propaganda is a message of hatred, war, and segregation.
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Title: The Secret Rulers of the World
Character: Self – Founder, Aryan Nations
Released: April 29, 2001
Type: TV
The Secret Rulers of the World was first shown on Channel 4 in April 2001. The five-part documentary series accompanied creator Jon Ronson's book 'Them: Adventures with Extremists', which covered similar topics and described many of the same episodes. Both the series and book detail Ronson's encounters following theorists and activists residing outside political, religious, and sociological norms.
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Blood in the Face
Title: Blood in the Face
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 27, 1991
Type: Movie
An expose of the beliefs, history, and personalities of American White Supremacist groups, including neo-Nazis, fascists, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Aryan Nation. Footage includes interviews, as well as the supremacist's own promotional material. Subject discussed include the loss of America to the "colored" races, the imminent racial bloodbath, interracial breeding, prejudice, the Holocaust, Jesus, Christianity, Jews, the Bible, and illegal immigrants who enter the country with nuclear bombs strapped to their backs.