Victorian Slum Home (PBS) documents slum life in 1860s England. The clothes, housing, money--everything is replicated, and modern English people who are part of the film do way more than walk a mile in the shoes of their ancestors.
Imagine what it would feel like to live the lives our great-grandparents lived. This documentary involves people wanting to know what their ancestors lives were like enough to subject themselves to living in the cramped, dark hovels of slum dwellers, struggling to make enough money to pay for their stark bedrooms and only the basics of food.
One professional golfer with a "Rolls Royce" prosthetic leg takes on the project to understand what an amputee of 1860 would have experienced IF he could afford a leather version of such a replacement limb which would have cost about the same as two years' of rent. Due to the hazards of many jobs in the 1860s, many people lost limbs but few could afford replacements.
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