‘Masterpiece’ war film you need to watch instead of World Cup tonight | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV

The June 24 fixtures are Bosnia and Herzegovina v Qatar at 7pm on ITV4, Switzerland v Canada at 7pm ET on ITV1, Morocco v Haiti at 1-0pm on BBC Two and Scotland v Brazil at 10pm on BBC One.

Those with no interest in football aren’t left with many options but to stream a movie, and one of the best war films of this century is currently available on Netflix.

It features a star studded cast including Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent.

It’s breakout star was Christoph Waltz as SS-Standartenführer (Colonel) Hans Landa. A huge star in Europe prior to this the movie brought him to an international audience and he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as well as the BAFTA Award, Critics’ Choice Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.

Tarantino wrote the script in 1998 almost a decade before the film’s release but he struggled with the ending and put it aside in favour of directing the two-part film Kill Bill. He didn’t revisit it until 2007.

The movie was a co-production between the United States and Germany and was filmed in Germany and France with a $70 million production budget. To date it has grossed $321.5million worldwide.

Critic Allison Rose described it as a “masterpice”, writing: “[Inglourious Basterds] is quintessentially Tarantino and a masterpiece that will be considered a classic fifty years from now.”