One of Quentin Tarantino's best ever movies with 89% Rotten Tomatoes score is airing on TV tonight

The director is known for making some of cinema's greatest ever movies

One of Quentin Tarantino’s best ever movies with an 89% Rotten Tomatoes score is airing on TV tonight (April 16) for free across the UK.

The director is one of cinema’s biggest names, known for his films’ charismatic characters, witty dialogue and intense violence.

Beginning his adult life working in a video store, Tarantino burst on the scene with his 1992 crime flick Reservoir Dogs.

Following it up with Pulp Fiction, it was clear that the director was able to make magic with movie stars and revitalise the careers of some forgotten faces.

After Jackie Brown was underseen and underappreciated by the public, Tarantino bounced back with his Kill Bill double bill.

After releasing the only film not considered a masterpiece by his fans with 2007’s Death Proof, the Tennessee native dropped his magnum opus just two years later.

Inglourious Basterds tells an alternate history story of two converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership at a Paris cinema.

One of these plots is carried out by a team Jewish American Soldiers, led by Brad Pitt, while the other is by a French Jewish cinema proprietor seeking vengeance for her family’s murder.

The star of the show is Hans Landa, with Christolph Waltz becoming a household name in the chilling performance that won him an Oscar despite mainly being known for working on Austrian soaps.

The stacked cast also includes Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent.

Released to critical acclaim, many fans attest to this day that Tarantino is yet to top the unconventional war film.

Audiences raced to the cinema to see it, with it earning a stunning $321 million worldwide at the box office, a figure unheard of these days for adult dramas.

Despite being nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, Waltz was the only person from the movie to walk away with a golden statue.

Appearing on Brian Koppelman’s The Moment podcast several years ago, Tarantino revealed that he made Waltz undersell how good of an actor he was to the rest of the cast.

“I got together with Christoph before we got to the big script reading with the cast. I’m not doing this to be perverse game-playing… everybody is so curious about who is playing Hans Landa.

“I don’t want you to be bad at the script reading, but I want you to hold a lot back. I do not want them to think that they are getting a glimpse of who you are really going to be.

“On a scale of one to 10, be a six. Be good enough, just good enough. I do not want you to be in a competition with anybody, and if you are in competition then lose. I don’t want them to know what you have or for them to have a handle on Landa.”

Inglourious Basterds airs on Wednesday, April 15, at 9pm on Film4 and channel.com