Narco Wars - Season 1

Narco Wars

Season 1

2020 • 10 Episodes

Episodes

How Cocaine Came to America - Narco Wars

1. How Cocaine Came to America

December 9, 2020

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.

Mexicos First Cartel - Narco Wars

2. Mexicos First Cartel

December 16, 2020

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

The Battle for the Border - Narco Wars

3. The Battle for the Border

December 23, 2020

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

Escobar's Empire - Narco Wars

4. Escobar's Empire

December 30, 2020

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

Escobar Goes to War - Narco Wars

5. Escobar Goes to War

January 6, 2021

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

Rise of the Narco Army - Narco Wars

6. Rise of the Narco Army

January 20, 2021

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.

After Pablo - Narco Wars

7. After Pablo

January 27, 2021

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

Narco Cult - Narco Wars

8. Narco Cult

February 3, 2021

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

Chapo Public Enemy No. 1 - Narco Wars

9. Chapo Public Enemy No. 1

February 10, 2021

The 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.

The Last Don - Narco Wars

10. The Last Don

February 17, 2021

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