Believers: Boston Red Sox

Believers: Boston Red Sox

2025
Believers: Boston Red Sox
Believers: Boston Red Sox

Believers: Boston Red Sox

8.4 | en | 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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EP1  BOOK I: DOUBT
Sep. 26,2025
BOOK I: DOUBT

Throughout 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.

EP2  BOOK II: HOPE
Sep. 26,2025
BOOK II: HOPE

Boston 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.

EP3  BOOK III: TRANSCENDENCE
Sep. 26,2025
BOOK III: TRANSCENDENCE

While 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.

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Released: 2025-09-26 | Released Producted By: Religion of Sports , Artists Equity Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: https://www.espn.com/watch/series/e592d71c-b730-431e-809c-a8cbde6ce2d2/believers-boston-red-sox
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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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Cast

Ben Affleck , Matt Damon , Uzo Aduba , Deepak Chopra

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Religion of Sports , Artists Equity

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Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
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ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!