Series
Believers: Boston Red Sox
Documentary
Retraces the Boston Red Sox's haunted history and chronicles decades of heartbreak, myth, and near-misses, culminating in the 2004 championship that redefined what it meant to believe.
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Seasons & episodes
The story of how, for 86 years, the Red Sox broke the spirits of generations of their most devoted followers, falling short of a championship in heartbreaking and unforgettable fashion, time and time again. Yet through every collapse, every missed chance, and every season of disappointment, Boston fans held on to an unshakable belief that redemption would come.
1BOOK I: DOUBT26 Sept 2025 · 52m · ★ 1.0Throughout history, Red Sox fans have bonded through heartbreak. From the Bambino to Bucky Dent, to Buckner and Boone, Bostonians suffered decades of agonizing defeats. The 2004 Red Sox finally had a team poised to challenge the dynastic Yankees and deliver a World Series to Boston. After quickly falling to a 3-0 series deficit in the ALCS to the Bronx Bombers, it appeared to be yet another year of let down in Beantown, until one moment began to change the course of history.
2BOOK II: HOPE26 Sept 2025 · 52m · ★ 1.0Boston is a paradox. A city of revolutionaries, transcendentalists and progressives, as well as a city scarred by a history of social and economic discrimination. Against this backdrop was a baseball team that served as a great unifier, while suffering from the same sins, explained away by a mythic 86-year-old curse. The 2004 Red Sox represented everything Boston hoped to be. With their season hanging in the balance, the team of self-proclaimed ‘idiots’ began to chip away at the Yankees veil of immortality and provided the fan base with a new hope.
3BOOK III: TRANSCENDENCE26 Sept 2025 · 50m · ★ 1.0While Red Sox fans anxiously awaited the next form in which misery would once again seal their fate, new myths were born, but this time carried the Red Sox to a comeback that transcended baseball – exorcising an 86-year-old curse that defined and haunted generations of Sox fans. Faith and belief had finally been rewarded. Now, the fan base faces a new reality where suffering is no longer the badge they bear, but the pressure of winning is. How do fans make sense of this? No one knows, but it sure beats losing.
Details
- First aired
- 26 Sept 2025
- Last aired
- 26 Sept 2025
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- ESPN App
- Episodes
- 3
- Votes
- 1 on TMDB
Cast
Ben AffleckSelf
Matt DamonSelf
Uzo AdubaSelf
Katie NolanSelf
Deepak ChopraSelf
