In Darkest London: A Social Documentary of the East End in the 1880s

In Darkest London is an exploration of the slums of Whitechapel exposing the grim poverty which enveloped it and the dire consequences of Victorian attitudes towards the dispossessed. The scenes of slum life - the factory sweat shops, the vile workhouses and the predatory street life - are incisively viewed through the eyes of a young captain in the Salvation Army, whose sense of moral outrage leads him on a journey through the darkness and despair of the East End ghetto.