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Narco Wars
Overview
Narco Wars explores how opportunistic smuggling networks in Latin America turned into powerful and ruthless drug cartels with the power to destabilize and tear apart whole countries. The series combines gripping access to cartel members and the law enforcement agencies opposing them with a deep dive documentary exploration of the geo-political, social and cultural factors that led the cartels' rise.
Seasons
Season 1 (2020)
No overview available.
10 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: How Cocaine Came to America
2020-12-09Despite $1 trillion spent on enforcement and 2.5 million death toll, more illegal drugs are being produced, trafficked, and consumed than ever before. Featuring interviews and action filmed with key players on both sides of the law, this 10 part series will examine the drug wars - both past and present - to explain why.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 2: Mexicos First Cartel
2020-12-16How a group of marijuana traffickers created Mexico’s first-ever drug Cartel and committed murder to protect their billion-dollar operations.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 3: The Battle for the Border
2020-12-23El Chapo Guzman’s rise to cartel leader through his ingenious cocaine-smuggling tunnels and a war with the Tijuana cartel unleashes narco terror.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 4: Escobar's Empire
2020-12-30Pablo Escobar goes from cocaine tycoon in the late ‘70s to full-blown narcoterrorism by 1985, waging war against the Colombian state.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 5: Escobar Goes to War
2021-01-06Pablo Escobar goes to war against both authorities and his rivals, the Cali cartel, as his terror sees airliners blown up and politicians assassinated.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 6: Rise of the Narco Army
2021-01-20One drug lord uses millions of drug dollars to bribe soldiers to desert the army to form The Zetas, the most feared cartel in Mexico’s history.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 7: After Pablo
2021-01-27Upon Escobar’s death, the Rodriguez brothers take over as the new cocaine kings, specializing in corruption and buying Colombia’s presidents.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 8: Narco Cult
2021-02-03Meth kingpin Nazario Moreno turns a drug cartel into Mexico’s first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 9: Chapo Public Enemy No. 1
2021-02-10The search for the world's most-wanted drug trafficker - El Chapo - as told by two women in Chicago whose drug-dealing husbands turned against the man who supplied nearly half of America's narcotics and the key DEA agents who finally brought him to justice.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 10: The Last Don
2021-02-17In the mid-1990s, left-wing guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries plunge Colombia into a civil war financed by the profits from cocaine trafficking
Runtime: 45 min
Season 2 (2021)
No overview available.
6 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Mob: The Heroin Don
2021-05-26Carmine Galante was the mafia boss who industrialized heroin smuggling into the United States. A brutal psychopath, he let nothing stand in his way…
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 2: The Mob: The Mafia Meth King
2021-06-02The rise and fall of Philadelphia mobster Long John Martorano, who built a meth empire worth $500 million; told for the first time by those closest to him.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 3: The Mob: Drugs, Bugs and the Dapper Don
2021-06-09In 1980s New York, John Gotti kills the boss of the Gambino Crime Family to protect his drugs empire, breaking the Mafia’s most sacred rules and becoming the infamous ‘Teflon Don'.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 4: The Mob: How E Busted the Bull
2021-06-16Sammy The Bull attempts to go straight in Arizona, but gets sucked into a major ecstasy-dealing ring after his kids get a taste for raving.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 5: The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia
2021-06-23Henry Hill was just a low-level Mob associate. But his 1980 arrest for drug dealing brings about the downfall of the Mafia’s wealthiest crew…
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 6: The Mob: The Cocaine Godfather
2021-06-30The Rizzutos were one of the longest ruling dynasties in Mafia history. They built a multibillion dollar cocaine empire that spanned two continents.
Runtime: 45 min
Season 3 (2022)
Vietnam vets, mobsters, the Mujahideen, the CIA and Mexican drug lords: all play their part in this epic new season exploring the international heroin trade – and its deadly consequences in America and around the world.
6 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: How Sgt. Smack Hooked Up Harlem
2022-08-03In this enhanced episode, an army veteran helps flood Harlem with heroin.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 2: Prince of Death
2022-08-10Drug lord Khun Sa floods New York, N.Y., with purity heroin until the DEA hatches a plan.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 3: The Mob and the Mujahideen
2022-08-17The mob connects with the Mujahideen to create an ambitious heroin pipeline.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 4: Narco Jihad
2022-08-24DEA agent Jeff Higgins sets out to avenge 9/11 by taking on an Afghan heroin kingpin and proving the close link between narcotics and terrorism.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 5: Pain Pill Nation
2022-09-07Party bro and convicted felon Chris George floods the U.S. with addictive pain medication, until the FBI hatch a plan.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 6: Opioid Apocalypse
2022-09-07How rogue chemists and street gangs brought fentanyl to America - and the vicious Mexican cartel that controls this deadly opioid today - the CJNG
Runtime: 60 min
