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Independent Lens
Season 27 · Episode 9
BACKSIDE: The Unseen Hands of Horse Racing
0.056mApril 13, 2026
Immigrant grooms work year-round on the hidden “backside” of Churchill Downs. Rising before dawn, they care for some of the world’s most prized Kentucky Derby racehorses, revealing how race, labor, and class shape an elite American industry. BACKSIDE: The Unseen Hands of Horse Racing honors the resilience that’s behind the spectacle.
Episodes
- Episode 1Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
- Episode 2Ratified
- Episode 3Life After
- Episode 4Vivien's Wild Ride
- Episode 5The Librarians
- Episode 6The Inquisitor
- Episode 7Keep Quiet and Forgive
- Episode 8The Tallest Dwarf
- Episode 9BACKSIDE: The Unseen Hands of Horse Racing
- Episode 10Natchez
- Episode 11Light of the Setting Sun
- Episode 12Third Act
- Episode 13Assembly
- Episode 14True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power
- Episode 15Flood