Narco Wars
TV Show · Crime · Reality

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

2020 · 44m
Starring Chris Feistl, Ioan Grillo, Sebastian Marroquín
Director Minna Sedmakov

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    How Cocaine Came to America
    With interviews from notorious smuggler George Jung and Pablo Escobar’s wife and son - this pilot episode reveals how a handful of criminals including the original ”Black Widow” Griselda Blanco, daredevil Carlos Lehder and Pablo Escobar himself joined forces to form the most powerful.
    44m
  • EPISODE 2
    Mexico's First Cartel
    When the United States blocks off the Miami smuggling route for Colombian cocaine, an enterprising group of Mexican marijuana traffickers are ready to step in. The Guadalajara Cartel are the first criminal organization dedicated to trafficking drugs into the United States. But when a U.S. DEA officer attempts to disrupt their business, the Cartel take revenge.
    44m
  • EPISODE 3
    The Battle for the Border
    A young Sinaloan drug smuggler, El Chapo Guzman, goes to war with Mexico’s first true cartel, the Arellano Felix Organization, which supplied up to 70% of cocaine consumed in the U.S. The war for control of this billion-dollar cocaine business in Tijuana triggers a bloody cycle for competition and revenge for control of the drug trade that will touch all of Mexico, giving birth to “narco terror.”
    43m
  • EPISODE 4
    Escobar's Empire
    With interviews from Pablo Escobar’s wife, son and photographer, this episode reveals how Pablo Escobar built a billion-dollar cocaine empire in the late ‘70s. When the U.S. and Colombian authorities start to get in his way, he unleashes his fury on his country's politicians and judges – culminating in his first act of narcoterrorism, prompting the violent takeover of Colombia’s Supreme Court.
    44m
  • EPISODE 5
    Escobar Goes to War
    Cocaine king Pablo Escobar fights a war on two fronts, against the authorities and his rivals, the Cali cartel. His campaign of terror sees airliners blown up and politicians assassinated, but his enemies are uniting against him. Featuring interviews with Escobar’s wife and son, this episode investigates the battle against extradition to the U.S., which threatened to destroy the Colombian state.
    44m
  • EPISODE 6
    Rise of the Narco Army
    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. With heavy weapons, military discipline and a ruthlessness that shocks even most agents, this new breed of narcos takes the drugs war to a whole new level. In the face of betrayal, The Zetas make a whole town pay, sparking a manhunt to bring them down.
    44m

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Cast & Crew

  • Chris Feistl
    Self
  • I‌G
    Ioan Grillo
    Self
  • S‌M
    Sebastian Marroquín
    Self
  • G‌A
    George Anastasia
    Self
  • Karen Gravano
    Self
  • J‌T
    Joe Toft
    Self
  • M‌S
    Minna Sedmakov
    Director
  • J‌D
    Jeremy Dear
    Producer
  • F‌H
    Fred Hepburn
    Producer
  • R‌P
    Ralph Perring
    Producer
  • D‌C
    Daniel Clifton
    Producer

About

Narco Wars

Crime

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

Information

Studio
National Geographic
Released
2020
Rated
TV-14
© 2020 National Geographic Partners, LLC

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English (United States), English (United Kingdom)
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