Brad Pitt & Diane Kruger's R-Rated Movie Gets Peacock Streaming Date

Peacock subscribers will be able to revisit the 2009 Oscar-winning film starring Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger when it hits the platform later this month. Helmed by the highly acclaimed filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, the story centers on two groups with a common goal of assassinating Nazi leaders during World War II.

Inglourious Basterds streams on Peacock in May

Inglourious Basterds will begin streaming on Peacock from Friday, May 22, 2026, per the streamer’s schedule.

The story explores an alternate history and is set in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. It follows two groups that aim at killing the Nazi leaders. One group, a squad of Jewish-American soldiers led by U.S. Army lieutenant Aldo Raine, terrorizes Nazi through brutal tactics.

Meanwhile, Shosanna Dreyfus, a Jewish survivor of a massacre, plans to kill SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa, the officer who killed her family, and other Nazis. Following her escape, Shosanna rebuilds her life under a false name and becomes the owner of a theater in Paris. When the Nazi leaders plan a film premiere at her theater, both she and the Basterds independently scheme to assassinate them.

Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed Inglourious Basterds. In an interview with Robert Rodriguez, Tarantino said that he began working on the script after completing his 1997 gangster drama, Jackie Brown. He had written hundreds of pages worth of story, but didn’t have a proper ending.

And when he eventually completed the script, a new problem arose: the script was too “big and unwieldy.” It led him to believe it would be better off as a series. However, director Luc Besson suggested otherwise. Since he couldn’t “unhear” Besson’s suggestion, the Pulp Fiction director gave it another go at the script and condensed it to fit a feature-length.

The cast of Inglourious Basterds includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, and Daniel Brühl, among others.

The film opened in theaters on August 21, 2009, and emerged as a hit. Both critics and moviegoers alike praised it. On Rotten Tomatoes, Inglourious Basterds has a Tomatometer score of 89% and a Popcornmeter score of 88%. The film then went on to make $321.5 million globally against a $70 million budget.

Additionally, it received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. However, it won only one: Best Supporting Actor for Christoph Waltz.

Alongside Inglourious Basterds, Peacock is also adding other Tarantino films on the same day.