A Thousand Blows Series

A Thousand Blows Series

A Thousand Blows Series Trailer HD - Plot Synopsis: A Thousand Blows is inspired by the true-life stories of a group of characters battling for survival in the brutal East End of London in the 1880’s.

Hezekiah (Malachi Kirby) & Alec (Francis Lovehall), two friends from Jamaica, find themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End.

It's there they meet Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as The Forty Elephants, and run afoul of Sugar Goodson (Stephen Graham), criminal kingpin and notorious boxer.

What ensues is a battle of the old world against the new.

A Thousand Blows is a series created and showrun by the acclaimed British screenwriter Steven Knight.