A Thousand Blows is a 2025 drama series streaming on Hulu, Hotstar and Disney Plus globally set around immigrants fighting for their rights in the UK around latter half of the 1800s.
It follows a Jamaican man named Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby) emigrates to London in search of a better and finds himself boxing to survive.
Hezekiah gets introduced to the Forty Elephant gang of women scamsters. Forty Elephants gang, also sometimes called the Forty Thieves, existed in history and were indeed an all-female crime gang operating in London from around the 1870s to at least 1950. Their specialization was in shoplifting and pickpocketing, just as shown in the series, and the real Forty Elephants were also affiliated with a bigger male-centered criminal gang, named the Elephant and Castle Mob. Their most prominent period happened to be between the two World Wars, when the women criminals conducted numerous raids and looting sprees at shopping centers in London.
The first season with six episodes is very compelling with drama and intrigue in the London East End underbelly with froth with racism where immigrants struggle to make it with the help of the Elephant Gang.