Ben Affleck, Matt Damon Profile Red Sox History in New ESPN Documentary

ESPN has launched a new three-part series titled Believers: Boston Red Sox.

ESPN Originals said it will focus on "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."

According to an Action News 6 report, the three-part series includes appearances and commentary from celebrities such as Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Katie Nolan, Bill Burr, Donnie Wahlberg, Uzo Aduba, Sam Jay, Maria Menounos, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Several members of the 2004 Red Sox roster will also star, including Johnny Damon, Curt Schilling, David Ortiz, Kevin Millar, and Bronson Arroyo.

Gotham Chopra and Lauren Fisher of Religion of Sports directed the documentary. Ben Affleck served as the series executive producer.

"I think the approach for our series is less about what happened on the baseball diamond and more about what it meant — to the people and the place where it happened," Chopra said in an interview with ESPN Front Row. "We started with the premise that to really understand what happened in '04, you had to understand the place where it happened, and the people from there.

"And not just the fans who witnessed it or even suffered through the curse that preceded ‘04, but I mean the original New Englanders who came over fleeing persecution, to this that then persecuted others themselves (Salem Witch Trials), to the transcendentalists who re-imagined faith around Walden Pond, and so on. So, really, it's less about the baseball of it all, and more about the Boston (and beyond) of it all," he added.

Believers: Boston Red Sox is available for streaming on the ESPN App for subscribers with an ESPN Unlimited plan.

Watch the documentary's trailer below.