Narco Wars

Explore how opportunistic smuggling networks in Latin America turned into powerful and ruthless drug cartels with unprecedented power.

12 Votes (8.4)

2020 HD 60min TV-14 United States English Returning Series
Crime Documentary
drug cartel drug trafficking social documentary latin america

Credits:

S1E1 - How Cocaine Came to America 2020-12-09

Despite $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.

S1E2 - Mexicos First Cartel 2020-12-16

How a group of marijuana traffickers created Mexico’s first-ever drug Cartel and committed murder to protect their billion-dollar operations.

S1E3 - The Battle for the Border 2020-12-23

El Chapo Guzman’s rise to cartel leader through his ingenious cocaine-smuggling tunnels and a war with the Tijuana cartel unleashes narco terror.

S1E4 - Escobar's Empire 2020-12-30

Pablo Escobar goes from cocaine tycoon in the late ‘70s to full-blown narcoterrorism by 1985, waging war against the Colombian state.

S1E5 - Escobar Goes to War 2021-01-06

Pablo Escobar goes to war against both authorities and his rivals, the Cali cartel, as his terror sees airliners blown up and politicians assassinated.

S1E6 - Rise of the Narco Army 2021-01-20

One 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.

S1E7 - After Pablo 2021-01-27

Upon Escobar’s death, the Rodriguez brothers take over as the new cocaine kings, specializing in corruption and buying Colombia’s presidents.

S1E8 - Narco Cult 2021-02-03

Meth kingpin Nazario Moreno turns a drug cartel into Mexico’s first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars.

S1E9 - Chapo Public Enemy No. 1 2021-02-10

The search for the worlds 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 Americas narcotics and the key DEA agents who finally brought him to justice.

S1E10 - The Last Don 2021-02-17

In the mid-1990s, left-wing guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries plunge Colombia into a civil war financed by the profits from cocaine trafficking

S2E1 - The Mob: The Heroin Don 2021-05-26

Carmine Galante was the mafia boss who industrialized heroin smuggling into the United States. A brutal psychopath, he let nothing stand in his way…

S2E2 - The Mob: The Mafia Meth King 2021-06-02

The 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.

S2E3 - The Mob: Drugs, Bugs and the Dapper Don 2021-06-09

In 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.