Series
Narco Wars
Documentary
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.
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Seasons & episodes
1How Cocaine Came to America9 Dec 2020 · 45mDespite $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.
2Mexicos First Cartel16 Dec 2020 · 45mHow a group of marijuana traffickers created Mexico’s first-ever drug Cartel and committed murder to protect their billion-dollar operations.
3The Battle for the Border23 Dec 2020 · 45mEl Chapo Guzman’s rise to cartel leader through his ingenious cocaine-smuggling tunnels and a war with the Tijuana cartel unleashes narco terror.
4Escobar's Empire30 Dec 2020 · 45mPablo Escobar goes from cocaine tycoon in the late ‘70s to full-blown narcoterrorism by 1985, waging war against the Colombian state.
5Escobar Goes to War6 Jan 2021 · 45mPablo Escobar goes to war against both authorities and his rivals, the Cali cartel, as his terror sees airliners blown up and politicians assassinated.
6Rise of the Narco Army20 Jan 2021 · 45mOne 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.
7After Pablo27 Jan 2021 · 45mUpon Escobar’s death, the Rodriguez brothers take over as the new cocaine kings, specializing in corruption and buying Colombia’s presidents.
8Narco Cult3 Feb 2021 · 45mMeth kingpin Nazario Moreno turns a drug cartel into Mexico’s first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars.
9Chapo Public Enemy No. 110 Feb 2021 · 45mThe 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.
10The Last Don17 Feb 2021 · 45mIn the mid-1990s, left-wing guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries plunge Colombia into a civil war financed by the profits from cocaine trafficking
Details
- First aired
- 9 Dec 2020
- Last aired
- 7 Sept 2022
- Status
- Returning Series
- Language
- English
- Network
- National Geographic
- Episodes
- 22
- Votes
- 9 on TMDB
